This book actively challenges the constraints imposed by dominant cis-heteronormative paradigms and advocates for a dynamic and fluid understanding of identity and healing, framing social justice and liberation as indispensable components of therapeutic practice. Each chapter investigates queer and trans epistemologies - ways of knowing, feeling, and imagining - that destabilize conventional therapeutic approaches. It provides adaptive and practical strategies ... Weiterlesen

Marcella Althaus-Reid: The Queer God

USA 2003, 186 pp., brochure, € 79.95
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There are those who go to gay bars and salsa clubs with rosaries in their pockets, and who make camp chapels of their living rooms. Others enter churches with love letters hidden in their bags, because their need for God and their need for love refuse to fit into different compartments. But what goodness and righteousness can prevail if you ... Weiterlesen

Ronald Weitzer: Sex For Sale

Prostitution, Pornography, and Erotic Dancing. UK 2022, 434 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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This fully updated edition of »Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and Erotic Dancing« presents an innovative, in-depth, and nuanced analysis of sex work, its risks, and benefits, and pays attention to newer and everchanging types of sex work and its actors, as well as public policies and laws that govern its trade. Now in its third edition, this volume includes ... Weiterlesen

Ivan Raykoff: Another Song for Europe

Music, Taste, and Values in the Eurovision Song Contest. UK 2021, 192 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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The Eurovision Song Contest is famous for its camp spectacles and political intrigues, but what about its actual music? With more than 1,500 songs in over 50 languages and a wide range of musical styles since it began in 1956, Eurovision features the most musically and linguistically diverse song repertoire in history. Listening closely to its classic fan favorites but ... Weiterlesen

Sandra Boehringer: Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome

UK 2021, 380 pp., brochure, € 69.95
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This study, among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout Antiquity, explores the topic with reference to ancient concepts and views, drawing on the existing visual and written record including literary, philosophical, and scientific documents. Even today, ancient female homosexuals are often seen in terms of a mythical, ethereal Sapphic love, or stereotyped as »Amazons« or courtesans. Boehringer's scholarly book ... Weiterlesen

Ruth Mazo Karras: Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others

UK 2017 (3rd edition), 258 pp., brochure, € 69.95
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Challenging the way the Middle Ages have been treated in general histories of sexuality, Sexuality in Medieval Europe shows how views at the time were conflicted and complicated; there was no single medieval attitude towards sexuality any more than there is one modern attitude. Focusing on marital sexual activity, as well as behavior that was seen as transgressive, the chapters ... Weiterlesen

Thomas Spijkerboer: Fleeing Homophobia

Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Asylum. UK 2015, 264 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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Each year, thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex asylum seekers apply for asylum in EU member states. This book considers the position of LGBTI asylum seekers in European asylum law. Developing an encompassing approach to the topic, the book identifies and analyzes the main legal issues arising in relation to LGBTI people seeking asylum including: the underestimation of ... Weiterlesen

Vicky Whipple: Lesbian Widows

Invisible Grief. UK/USA 2006, 216 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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The unseen issues of grief and discrimination - lesbians becoming widows. The death of a life partner poses unique challenges for lesbians. »Lesbian Widows: Invisible Grief« reveals the touching and very personal stories of twenty-five women, including the author, who were widowed at a young age and forced to create a new life without their life partners. The book follows ... Weiterlesen

Donald E. Hall and Annamarie Jagose (eds.): The Routledge Queer Studies Reader

UK/USA 2012, 586 pp., brochure, € 79.95
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»The Routledge Queer Studies Reader« provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vibrant, interdisciplinary field. The book traces the emergence and development of queer studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that explores new directions. The collection is edited by leading scholars in the field and presents individual introductory ... Weiterlesen

Harry Oosterhuis/ Hubert Kennedy (eds.): Homosexuality and Male Bonding in Pre-Nazi Germany

The Youth Movement, the Gay Movement and Male Bonding Before Hitler's Rise. USA 2010 (Reprint), 271 pp., brochure, € 89.95
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This is a landmark publication featuring English translations of selections from the early gay German journal, »Der Eigene«. This collection, previously scattered and difficult to read in the original German, allows readers direct access to primary source material on the early gay movement. Neglected for years, these articles provide insight into the early gay movement, particularly in its relation to ... Weiterlesen

Michael T. Luongo (ed.): Gay Travels in the Muslim World

USA/UK 2009, 200 pp., brochure, € 69.95
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Travel beyond the fear and paranoia of 9-11 to experience Muslim culture. »Gay Travels in the Muslim World« journeys where other gay travel books fear to tread - Muslim countries. This book tells both Muslim and non-Muslim gay men's stories of traveling in the Middle East during these difficult political times. The true, very personal tales reveal how gay men ... Weiterlesen

Samuel M. Steward: Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos

A Social History of the Tattoo With Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks. USA/UK 2008, 204 pp., brochure, € 64.95
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Explore the dark subculture of 1950s tattoos! In the early 1950s, when tattoos were the indelible mark of a lowlife, an erudite professor of English - a friend of Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, and Thornton Wilder - abandoned his job to become a tattoo artist (and incidentally a researcher for Alfred Kinsey). »Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos« tells ... Weiterlesen

Carren Strock: Married Women Who Love Women

USA/UK 2008, 252 pp., brochure, € 39.99
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This book is about women in heterosexual marriages who discover or come to terms with their lesbianism or bisexuality. It answers questions such as how women make this discovery, what they do once they realize their same-gender sexuality, how family and friends deal with the situation, and what happens to marriages and families. This second edition contains a new introduction, ... Weiterlesen

Ivan Raykoff / Robert D. Tobin (eds.): A Song for Europe

Popular Music and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest. UK 2007, 189 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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The world's largest and longest-running song competition, the Eurovision Song Contest is a significant and extremely popular media event throughout the continent and abroad. The Contest is broadcast live in over 30 countries with over 100 million viewers annually. Established in 1956 as a televised spectacle to unify postwar Western Europe through music, the Contest features singers who represent a ... Weiterlesen

Vern L. Bullough (Ed.): Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context

UK 2002, 464 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Explore the early history of the gay rights movement In the words of editor Vern L. Bullough: »Although there was no single leader in the gay and lesbian community who achieved the fame and reputation of Martin Luther King, there were a large number of activists who put their careers and reputations on the line. It was a motley crew ... Weiterlesen

Whitney Davis (ed.): Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History

USA/UK 1994, 308 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 79.95
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Find original research and interpretive studies of the relations between homosexuality and the visual arts. Evidence for the role of homosexuality in artistic creation has often not survived, in part because the direct expression of homosexuality has often been condemned in Western societies. »Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History« presents examples of contemporary art historical research on homoeroticism and ... Weiterlesen

Judith Butler: Bodies That Matter

UK/USA/CAN 2011, 219 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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In »Bodies That Matter«, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most »material« dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the »matter« of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain »sex« from ... Weiterlesen