Alessandra Lemma provides a succinct overview of psychoanalytic understandings, approaches and controversies around transgender identifications. Illustrated with case vignettes, Lemma provides an up-to-date synthesis of current research and a critical overview of psychoanalytic approaches to transgender identities, distilling some of the contemporary controversies about how to approach the topic in the consulting room. Lemma also outlines a psychoanalytically informed ethical ... Weiterlesen

Tomasz Basiuk / Jedrzej Burszta (eds.): Queers in State Socialism

Cruising 1970s Poland. UK 2021, 131 pp., hardback, € 89.95
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This short collection of essays engages with queer lives and activism in 1970s Poland, illustrating discourses about queerness and a trajectory of the struggle for rights which clearly sets itself apart, and differs from a Western-based narrative of liberation. - Contributors to this volume paint an uneven landscape of queer life in state-socialist Poland in the 1970s and early 1980s. ... Weiterlesen

Jin Haritaworn / Adi Kuntsman / Silvia Posocco (ed: Queer Necropolitics

UK 2015, 222 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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This book comes at a time when the intrinsic and self-evident value of queer rights and protections, from gay marriage to hate crimes, is increasingly put in question. It assembles writings that explore the new queer vitalities within their wider context of structural violence and neglect. Moving between diverse geopolitical contexts - the US and the UK, Guatemala and Palestine, ... Weiterlesen

Carrie L. Buist / Emily Lenning: Queer Criminology

UK 2015, 144 pp., brochure, € 79.95
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In this book, Carrie L. Buist and Emily Lenning reflect on the origins of Queer Criminology, survey the foundational research and scholarship in this emerging field, and offer suggestions for the future. Covering topics such as the criminalization of queerness; the policing of Queer communities; Queer experiences in the courtroom; and the correctional control of Queer people, »Queer Criminology« synthesizes ... Weiterlesen

Monica B. Pearl: AIDS Literature and Gay Identity

The Literature of Loss. UK 2015, 200 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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This book discusses the significance of late 20th century and early 21st century American fiction written in response to the AIDS crisis and interrogates how sexual identity is depicted and constructed textually. Pearl develops Freudian psychoanalytic theory in a complex account of the ways in which grief is expressed and worked out in literature, showing how key texts from the ... Weiterlesen

David A. Gerstner (ed.): Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture

UK/USA 2011, 720 pp., brochure, € 67.99
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This encyclopedia covers gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) life and culture post-1945, with a strong international approach to the subject. The scope of the work is extremely comprehensive, with entries falling into the broad categories of dance, education, film, health, homophobia, the Internet, literature, music, performance, and politics. Slang is also covered. The international contributors come from a ... Weiterlesen

Anna Clark (ed.): The History of Sexuality in Europe

A Sourcebook and Reader. UK/USA/CAN 2011, 358pp., brochure, € 89.95
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In its introduction, »The Magnetic Poetry Kit of Sex«, the book surveys the field of sexuality and introduces the new concept of sexual grammar. The Reader focuses on the modern age, but has three chapters on the ancient and medieval worlds to demonstrate their very different cultures of sexuality. Altogether the book addresses questions such as: Why did ancient Greek ... Weiterlesen

Amy Lind (ed.): Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance

UK/USA 2010, 211 pp., brochure, € 47.99
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This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of global governance. The underlying premise is that the global development industry plays a central role in constructing people's sexual lives, access to citizenship, and struggles for livelihood. Despite the industry's persistent insistence on viewing sexuality as basically outside the realm of ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Pullen, Margaret Cooper (eds.): LGBT Identity and Online New Media

USA/UK 2010, 312 pp., brochure, € 44.69
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What is new about new media for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people? The authors' importnat new contribution to existing scholarship on LGBT representation suggests quite a lot. Its chapters critcially engage with queer identities, place, and community in the digital world. New generations of LGBT people are coming out, finding love, and making communities within a world of seemingly ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Lear, Eva Cantarella : Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty

Boys Were Their Gods. UK/USA 2009, 262 pp., brochure, € 89.00
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Greek pederasty, or »paiderastia« - the social custom of erotic relations between adult men and adolescent boys - was a central characteristic of Greek culture. Both Greeks and non-Greeks saw it, along with the gymnasium with its intimate connection to pederasty, as markers of Greek identity. It is an important theme in Greek literature, from poetry to comedy to philosophy, ... Weiterlesen

Mark J. Blechner: Sex Changes

Transformations in Society and Psychoanalysis. USA/UK 2009, 214 pp., brochure, € 34.79
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The last 50 years have seen enormous changes in society's attitudes toward sexuality. In the 1950s, homosexuals in the U.S. were routinely arrested. Today, homosexual activity between consenting adults is legal all over the U.S., with same-sex marriage legal in Massachusetts and Connecticut. In the 1950s, ambitious women were often seen as psychopathological and were told by psychoanalysts that they ... Weiterlesen

Glyn Davis, Gary Needham: Queer TV

Theories, Histories, Politics. UK/USA/CAN 2009, 190 pp., brochure, € 34.99
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How can we queerly theorise and understand television? How can the realms of television studies and queer theory be brought together, in a manner beneficial and productive for both? An introductory chapter by the editors charts the key debates and issues addressed within the book: »theories and approaches«, »histories and genres«, and »television itself«. Individual essays examine the relationships between ... Weiterlesen

Donald E. Hall: Reading Sexualities

Hermeneutic Theory and the Future of Queer Studies. USA/UK 2009, 145 pp., brochure, € 79.95
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This book confronts the reigning practices, priorities, and preoccupations of queer theory and sexuality studies. Looking at a range of texts, from novels to travel narratives to internet porn, the author deftly weaves the theoretical with the literary. He tries to examine the vexed ethical, critical, and political questions arising from sexual consumerism and cross-cultural encounters. He wants to read ... Weiterlesen

Michael Thompson: Endowed

Regulating the Male Sexed Body. USA/UK 2008, 194 pp., brochure, € 35.30
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Feminist legal scholars abd health care lawyers have long engaged with law's responses to the female reproductive body. Acknowledging this work and building upon it, »Endowed« considers the interaction of law and ideas of male productivity. In particular, it seeks to uncover what these regulatory moments can tell us about contemporary ideas and the ideas of masculinity and the male ... Weiterlesen

Jeff Guaracino: Gay and Lesbian Tourism

The Essential Guide for Marketing. UK 2007, 183 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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This unique introductory resource provides a broad foundation of knowledge on the gay and lesbian market segment. Topics and themes are illustrated by interviewing the top professionals in gay travel and gay media who share their experience, tips for success and future predictions. Packed with best case examples and practices of existing gay tourism initiatives and campaigns, this engaging text ... Weiterlesen

Peter Stoneley: A Queer History of the Ballet

UK/USA 2007, 206 pp., brochure, € 33.95
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There has long been a popular perception of a connection between ballet and homosexuality, a connection that, for strategic reasons, has often been denied by those in the dance world. This book focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer men and women have helped to develop many of the texts, images, and legends of ballet. Further, the book ... Weiterlesen

Sheila Whiteley, Jennifer Rycenga (eds.): Queering the Popular Pitch

USA/UK 2006, 308 pp., brochure, € 36.95
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This new collection of 18 essays by international scholars explores the queer iconography implicit in a variety of art forms, including film musicals, videos, cabaret, Latin House, poetry and, in some cases, cultural personae. The authors delve into issues concerning race and ethnicity, forgotten histories, the body in music, and the use of popular music in power politics - situating ... Weiterlesen

Tim Edwards: Erotics and Politics

Gay Male Sexuality, Masculinity and Feminism. UK 1994, 208 pp., brochure, € 49.00
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Erotics and Politics provides an interface between the study of sexuality (particularly gay male studies) and gender (primarily feminism). In doing so it covers a wide range of issues of concern to gay and feminist movements over the past twenty five years including gay liberational sexuality, sado-masochism, pornography, promiscuity, personal relationships, AIDS and postmodernity. The central focus of attention throughout ... Weiterlesen