Allan Peterkin: One Thousand Beards

USA 2001, 229 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Every man has the capacity to grow facial hair, but the decision to do so has always come with layers of meaning. At one time or another beards have come to represent wisdom, goodness, sorcery, diabolism, psychological depth, and revolution. They have been purchased, elaborately trimmed, adorned, and dyed. »One Thousand Beards« is a witty, comprehensive history of facial hair, ... Weiterlesen

Steven Angelides: A History of Bisexuality

USA 2001, 281 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Why is bisexuality the object of such scepticism? Why do sexologists steer clear of it in their research? Why has bisexuality, in stark contrast to homosexuality, only recently emerged as a nascent political and cultural identity? Bisexuality has been rendered as mostly irrelevant to the history, theory, and politics of sexuality. The author explores the reasons why, and invites us ... Weiterlesen

James Green: Beyond Carnival

USA 2001, 408 pp., brochure, € 33.99
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This sweeping history of male homosexuality in 20th-century Brazil reveals men struggling to cope with societal resistance to their lifestyles, creating vibrant subcultures, and finding their way in a society that is not so accepting of them as the hedonistic sexual displays of the annual Carnival might suggest. Drawing on oral histories, archival sources, materials from the mainstream and alternative ... Weiterlesen

Mark Blasius, Shane Phelan (eds.): We Are Everywhere

USA/UK 1997, 844 pp., brochure, € 98.00
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This historical sourcebook of gay and lesbian politics brings together the key primary sources relating to the politics of homosexuality. Presenting political, historical, legal, literary and psychological documents which trace the evolution of the gay and lesbian movement, this edited volume includes such diverse documents as organization pamphlets, essays, polemics, speeches, newspaper and journal articles, and academic papers - from ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Goldberg (ed.): Queering the Renaissance

USA 1994, 388 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Duke University Press
»Queering the Renaissance« offers a major reassessment of the field of Renaissance studies. Gathering essays by sixteen critics working within the perspective of gay and lesbian studies, this collection redraws the map of sexuality and gender studies in the Renaissance. Taken together, these essays move beyond limiting notions of identity politics by locating historically forms of same-sex desire that are ... Weiterlesen

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

USA/UK 1994, 308 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 79.95
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Routledge
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

George Chauncey: Gay New York

Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. USA 1994, 478 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 29.95
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Basic
»Gay New York« shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Based on years of research and access to a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, this book is a fascinating portrait of a gay world that is not supposed to have ... Weiterlesen

Richard Plant: The Pink Triangle

The Nazi War Against Homosexuals. USA 1986, 259 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Henry Holt
This is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climate and conditions that gave rise to a vicious campaign against Germany's gays, as directed by Himmler and his SS - a war that resulted in tens of thousands of arrests and thousands of deaths. In ... Weiterlesen

John Boswell: Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

USA 1994, 412 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 29.95
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Vintage
Boswell has taken great care to assemble, transcribe, translate and interpret a persuasive array of texts describing same-sex relationships in the ancient world. It is a testimony to the fairness of the book that he confronts the opposing arguments clearly. At a time when strictures against homosexuality are the subject of impassioned debate, this groundbreaking work of scholarship has generated ... Weiterlesen
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B. R. Burg: Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition

English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Carribean. USA 1993, 215 pp, brochure, € 39.99
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New York University Press
Pirates are among the most heavily romanticized and fabled characters in history. From Bluebeard to Captain Hook, they have been the subject of countless movies, books, children's tales, even a world-famous amusement park ride. In »Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition«, historian B. R. Burg investigates the social and sexual world of these sea rovers, a tightly bound brotherhood of men ... Weiterlesen

John Boswell: Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality

USA 1980, 424 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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John Boswell's highly acclaimed study of the history of attitudes toward homosexualiy in the Christian West challenges received opinion and our own preconceptions about the Chruch's past relationship to its gay members, among whom were priests, bishops and even canonized saints.