Kirsten Leng: Pleasure, Play, and Politics : A History of Humor in U.S. Feminism

USA 2026, 288 pp., pb., € 49.95
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University of Nebraska Press
»Pleasure, Play, and Politics« is the first book to examine the roles humor played in U.S. feminism during the late twentieth century. Based on extensive archival research, it brings to light the stunning, moving, and frankly hilarious ways feminists have used satire, irony, and spectacle as they worked to build a better world. The story it tells includes activism and ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Snyder-Hill: Soldier of Change

From the Closet to the Forefront of the Gay Rights Movement. USA 2014, 198 pp., hardcover, € 24.95
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University of Nebraska Press
When »Don't Ask, Don't Tell«, the official U.S. policy on gays serving in the military, was repealed in 2011, soldier Stephen Snyder-Hill (then Captain Hill) was serving in Iraq. Having endured years of this policy, which passively encouraged a culture of fear and secrecy for gay soldiers, Snyder-Hill submitted a video to a Republican primary debate (held two days after ... Weiterlesen

William Benemann: Men in Eden: William Drummond Stewart and Same-Sex Desire in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade

USA 2012, 344 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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University of Nebraska Press
The American West of the 19th century was a world of freedom and adventure for men who admired and desired other men. Among these sojourners was William Drummond Stewart, a flamboyant Scottish nobleman who found in American culture of the 1830s and 1840s a cultural milieu of openness in which men could pursue same-sex relationships. This book traces Stewart's travels ... Weiterlesen