Craig Arthur Williams: Roman Homosexuality

UK 2010, 471 pp., brochure, € 79.95
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Oxford University Press
Ten years after its original publication, »Roman Homosexuality« remains the definitive statement of this interesting but often misunderstood aspect of Roman culture. Learned yet accessible, the book has reached both students and general readers with an interest in ancient sexuality. This second edition features a new foreword by Martha Nussbaum, a completely rewritten introduction that takes account of new developments ... 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, € 49.95
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Routledge
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

Lewis C. Seifert: Manning the Margins

Masculinity & Writing in Seventeenth-Century France. USA 2010, 339pp., brochure, € 38.20
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Over the past decades, a rich body of scholarship has uncovered the crucial roles women played in 17th-century France, a period often reduced to »classical« male authors and »absolutist« kings. But the clearer perspective we now have of women has exposed the need to take a fresh look at men and masculinity. Examining ideals of polite masculine conduct, the figure ... Weiterlesen

Angelo Quattrocchi: The Pope is Not Gay!

UK/USA 2010, 181pp. with colour photographs, brochure, € 29.95
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This is an irreverent history of homophobic and sexist obscurantism in the Catholic Church and an endoscopic examination of its greatest contemporary advocate, Pope Benedict XVI. The author traces the evolution of Joseph Ratzinger's life, beginning with the Pope's childhood in Nazi Germany, his membership in the Hitler Youth in Bavaria and his conscription into the German anti-aircraft corps. His ... Weiterlesen

Barry Reay: New York Hustlers

Masculinity and Sex in Modern America. UK/USA 2010, 279pp., brochure, € 39.95
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This book - looking back from the 1990s into the early decades of the 20th century - maps the world of those known as »trade« - ostensibly straight men who would engage in homosexual sex - and hustlers - those who were paid for it. It was a milieu that was central to the sexual histories of several generations of ... Weiterlesen

Carlos A. Ball: From the Closet to the Courtroom

Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation. USA 2010, 286pp., hardbound, € 24.89
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The advancement of LGBT rights has occurred through struggles large and small - on the streets, around kitchen tables, and on the Web. Lawsuits have also played a vital role in propelling the movement forward, and behind every case in a human story: a landlord in New York seeks to evict a gay man from his home after his long-time ... Weiterlesen

C. Todd White: Pre-Gay L.A.

A Social History of the Movement for Homosexual Rights. USA 2009, 260 pp., brochure, € 32.95
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This book explores the origins and history of the modern American movement of homosexual rights, which originated in Los Angeles in the late 1940s and continues today. Part ethnography and part social history, it is a detailed account of the history of the movement as manifested through the emergence of four related organizations: Mattachine, ONE Incorporated, the Homosexual Information Center ... Weiterlesen

Lillian Faderman, Stuart Timmons: Gay L.A.

A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians. USA 2009, 431 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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This social, political and cultural history of lesbian and gay life in Los Angeles by two seasoned historians is easily the subject's definitive work. Presenting a wealth of fact and analysis, the authors breeze through the highlights of L.A. gay history. They begin with the suppression of Native Americans' sexual and gender expression by 16th-century Spanish missionaries, before exploring how ... Weiterlesen

Tommi Avicolli Mecca (ed.): Smash the Church, Smash the State!

The Early Years of Gay Liberation. USA 2009, 304 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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From the first high heel thrown at Stonewall to the last performance of the drag burlesque group The Cockettes, enter the wild days of the late 1960s and the early 1970s with the individuals who lived them! Celebrating 40 years since the June 1969 Stonewall Riots, the essays, manifestos, artwork and photos in this anthology represent a group of radical ... Weiterlesen

Rodger Streitmatter: From »Perverts« to »Fab Five«

The Media's Changing Depiction of Gay Men and Lesbians. UK/USA 2009, 222 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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This book tracks the dramatic change in how the American media have depicted gay people over the last 50 years. Each chapter illuminates a particular media product that served as a milestone on the media's journey from demonizing homosexuals some 50 years ago to celebrating gay people - or at least some categories of gay people - today. The media ... Weiterlesen

Khaled El-Rouayheb: Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800

USA 2009, 210 pp., brochure, € 44.95
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Attitudes toward homosexuality in the pre-modern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic. On the one hand, Arabic love poetry, biographical works, and bawdy satires suggest that homosexuality was a visible and tolerated part of Arab-Islamic elite culture before the 9th century. On the other hand, Islam supposedly considers homosexuality an abomination and prescribes severe punishment for it. This book ... Weiterlesen

James Davidson: The Greeks & Greek Love

A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece. UK 2009, 634 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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From Sappho to Alexander the Great, ancient Greek civilization is full of famous same-sex lovers. For all those who came after them, this inescapable feature has caused amusement, puzzlement and concern. Victorians preferred to focus on the intellectual side of ancient Greek homosexuality, coyly ignoring the sexual aspect. Later scholars sought to redress the balance by stressing the physical nature ... Weiterlesen

Mark J. Blechner: Sex Changes

Transformations in Society and Psychoanalysis. USA/UK 2009, 214 pp., brochure, € 34.79
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Taylor and Francis
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

Amin Ghaziani: The Dividends of Dissent

USA 2008, 419 pp., brochure, € 29.99
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Marching on Washington is a hallowed tradition of American political protest, and demonstrations led by the women's rights, civil rights, and anti-war movements all endure in popular memory. Between 1979 and 2000 four major lesbian and gay demonstrations took place there, and while these marches were some of the largest of their time, they have been sorely overlooked. Drawing on ... Weiterlesen

Matt Cook etc.: A Gay History of Britain

UK 2007, 256 pp., hardback, € 69.00
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Covering nearly 1000 years from the Norman Conquest to the internet age, it's a history rich in personalities, not only public figures like Richard Lionheart or Derek Jarman, but also little-known individuals such as »Eleanor«, a cross-dresser in Chaucer's England, and Mark Partridge, branded a »mollying bitch« in 18th-century London. »A Gay History of Britain« tells their stories against a ... Weiterlesen

Peter Stoneley: A Queer History of the Ballet

UK/USA 2007, 206 pp., brochure, € 33.95
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Taylor and Francis
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

Annette F. Timm, Joshua A. Sanborn: Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe

USA 2007, 244 pp., brochure, € 31.95
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This book explores the key transformations of sexual identities and sexuality in Europe from the French Revolution to the present day. Crucially, its focus is on gender, as it is impossible to understand masculinity or femininity in isolation. It is designed to introduce students to the major issues surrounding gender and sexuality in modern European history, and it is divided ... Weiterlesen

Neville Hoad: African Intimacies

USA 2007, 187 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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There have been few book-length engagements with the question of sexuality in Africa, let alone African homosexuality. This book simultaneously responds to the public debate on the »Africanness« of homosexuality and interrogates the meaningfulness of the terms »sexuality« and »homosexuality« outside of the Euro-American discourse. Speculating on cultural practices interpreted by missionaries as sodomy and resistance to colonialism, the author ... Weiterlesen