Andy Warhol: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

UK 2007, 242 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Penguin UK
In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol - which, with the subtitle »(From A to B and Back Again),« is less a memoir than a collection of riffs and reflections - he talks about love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, and success; about New York, America, and his childhood in McKeesport, Pennsylvania; about his good times and bad in New ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan N. Katz: The Invention of Heterosexuality

USA 2007, 292 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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»Heterosexuality«, assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny. The author challenges the common notion that the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality has been a timeless one. Building on the history of medical terminology, he reveals that as late as 1923, the term »heterosexuality« referred to a »morbid sexual passion«, and that ... Weiterlesen

Thomas Piontek: Queering Gay and Lesbian Studies

USA 2006, 133 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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University of Illinois Press
»Queering Gay and Lesbian Studies« is a broadly interdisciplinary study that considers a key dilemma in gay and lesbian studies through the prism of identity and its discontents: the field studies has modeled itself on ethnic studies programs, perhaps to be intelligible to the university community, but certainly because the ethnic studies route to programs is well established. Since this ... Weiterlesen

Sara Ahmed: Queer Phenomenology

USA 2006, 224 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the »orientation« aspect of »sexual orientation« and the »orient« in »orientalism«, the author examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time. Bodies take shape as they move through the world directing themselves toward or away from objects and others. Being »orientated« means feeling at home, ... Weiterlesen

Cathy Crimmins: How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization

USA 2005, 217 pp., brochure, € 14.99
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Over the past 50 years, the line between what is straight and what is gay has blurred to the point where most heterosexuals are unaware of the vast contributions gay men have made to American culture. The queering of America has gradually been shaping the way straight people talk, think, dress, and eat. Our irony-soaked culture draws liberally from the ... Weiterlesen

Michael Carden: Sodomy

USA 2004, 226 pp., brochure, € 32.99
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»Sodomy« is a study of the reception of Genesis 19, Sodom and Gomorrah, together with the parallel story in Judges 19-21, the outrage of Gibeah, in both Jewish and Christian traditions from the antiquity through the Reformation period. The book sets out to detoxify the dominant homophobic interpretation of Genesis 19, in which Sodom and Gomorrah serve as an archetypal ... Weiterlesen

Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan: Andy Warhol - Prince of Pop

USA 2004, 193 pp., hardbound, € 15.69
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Warhol's career spanned advertising, painting, filmmaking, and magazine publishing. This biography covers his childhood and art school years in Pittsburgh, his successful career in commercial art, and his rise in the Pop Art movement. Chapters also cover his dependence on his mother, his pursuit of celebrity, the lively social, drug, and artscene at his studio (christened the »Factory«), a near-fatal ... Weiterlesen

Dawne Moon: God, Sex & Politics

Homosexuality and Everyday Theologies. USA 2004, 281 pp., brochure, € 30.79
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The author employs ethnographic analysis at two Methodist congregations, one in Chicago and one in the suburbs, to examine debates occuring over the participation and acceptance of homosexuals. She begins with a theoretical introduction to postmodern theories of power and language that should be accessible to most readers. She draws on the ethnographic style of 1980s reflexive anthropology and does ... Weiterlesen

Janet Jakobsen, Ann Pellegrini: Love the Sin

USA 2004, 174 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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The authors confront the issue of sexual regulation head-on by supporting the idea of having sexual freedom just as we have religious freedom in the West. In their argument, they fight the idea of loving the sinner but hating the sin, suggesting we should, in the case of sex, love the sin. Turning from sex to religion, the authors question ... Weiterlesen

Byrne Fone: Homophobia: A History

USA 2001, 480 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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Picador
Antipathy, condemnation, loathing, fear and proscription of homosexual behavior have taken many forms over the centuries. In this lucid history, Fone charts the ways in which homophobia has induced legal, medical, social and ecclesiastical authorities to punish - and kill - gay men. Drawing upon accepted classics of gay studies (like Boswell and Greenberg) as well as other books and ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Harvey (ed.): The Essential Gay Mystics

USA 2001, 290 pp., brochure, € 23.19
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From Sappho to Whitman, Vergil to Audre Lorde, those who love others of the same sex have been foremost in the ranks of artists whose work reflects a mystical experience of God. Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people will find writings that illuminate the mystical path in this bountiful collection of selections from their spiritual forebears. The radical lesson of ... Weiterlesen

José Esteban Munoz: Disidentifications

Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. USA 1999, 227 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 39.95
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University of Minnesota Press
There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Munoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture - not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Munoz calls this process »disidentification«, and through a ... Weiterlesen

Daniel Mendelsohn: The Elusive Embrace

Desire and the Riddle of Identity. USA 1999, 209 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Vintage
Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, »The Elusive Embrace« is an exploration of the mysteries of identity. It is also a meditation in which the author uses his own divided life to investigate the ... Weiterlesen

Fabio Cleto (ed.): Camp

Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject: A Reader. UK 1999, 523 pp., brochure, € 55.99
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Edinburgh University Press
The book addresses the multi-layered issue of camp, whose inexhaustible breadth of reference and theoretical relevance to the issues taken up by academic research in recent years have made it one of the most salient and challenging issues on the contemporary critical stage. Reassessing the role and significance of the finest essays on camp written by leading intellectuals in cultural ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Moore: God's Gym

USA/UK 1996, 185 pp., brochure, € 37.99
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If man is created in the image of a perfect God, does the mortal body strive for physical perfection as well? Is bodybuilding part of God's plan for us? Is this strikingly original work, Moore considers God's male bodies - the bodies of Yahweh, of the Father of Jesus Christ, and of Jesus himself - and our obsessive earthly quest ... Weiterlesen

Judith Butler: Bodies That Matter

UK/USA/CAN 2011, 219 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Routledge
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

Susan Sontag: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

USA 1990, 183 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Picador
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote »Illness as Metaphor«, a classic work described by Newsweek as »one of the most liberating books of its time«. A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper ... Weiterlesen

David L. Eng: The Feeling of Kinship

Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy, € 41.99
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The author investigates the emergence of »queer liberalism« - the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the U.S., economically through an increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle, and politically through the legal protection of rights to privacy and intimacy. He argues that in our »colorblind« age the emergence of queer liberalism is a particular incarnation of liberal freedom ... Weiterlesen