Susan Stryker: Changing Gender

The History and Future of a Concept. UK 2026, 384 pp., hardbound, € 34.95
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Gender is one of the most contested topics of our age, as ideologies are weaponised by the far right and real trans lives are targeted. But what are we talking about when we talk about gender? What are the origins of the concept itself, and where might it take us in the future? Rooted in decades of deep research and ... Weiterlesen

Constance Debré: Name

UK 2025, 144 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Set partly in the narrator's childhood, »Name« explores ideas about origins and reshapes relationships to our various inheritances: name, family, class, habits. As the novel unravels, freedom is revealed as a redefining of these relationships on one's own terms. Brilliant and unflinching, »Name« affirms and extends Debré's radical project.

Alan Bennett: The Uncommon Reader

UK 2021, 122 pp., pb., € 14.95
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What would happen if the Queen became a reader of taste and discernment rather than of Dick Francis? The answer is a perfect story. »The Uncommon Reader« is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely and mostly gay authors ( JR ... Weiterlesen

Mark Gevisser: The Pink Line

The World's Queer Frontiers. UK 2020, 525 pp., pb., € 24.95
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Six years in the making, »The Pink Line« follows protagonists from nine countries all over the globe to tell the story of how LGBTQ rights became one of the world's new human rights frontiers in the second decade of the 21st century. From refugees in South Africa to activists in Egypt, transgender women in Russia and transitioning teens in the ... Weiterlesen

Angela Steidele: Gentleman Jack

A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist. UK 2019, 352 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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The extraordinary life story of Anne Lister, as told in the BBC drama »Gentleman Jack«. Anne Lister was a Yorkshire heiress, an intrepid world traveller and a proud lesbian during a time when it was difficult simply to be female. She chose to remain unmarried, dressed all in black and spoke openly of her lack of interest in men. The ... Weiterlesen

Boel Westin: Tove Jansson - Life, Art, Words

The Authorised Biography. UK 2018, 523 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 22.95
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The Finnish-Swedish lesbian writer and artist Tove Jansson achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomin stories, written between 1945 and 1970 and still in print in more than twenty languages. However, the Moomins were only a part of her prodigious output. Already admired in Nordic art circles as a painter, cartoonist and illustrator, she would go on to ... Weiterlesen