While many feminist and queer movements are designed to challenge sexism, they often simultaneously police gender and sexuality sometimes just as fiercely as the straight, male-centric mainstream does. Among LGBTQ activists, there is a long history of lesbians and gay men dismissing bisexuals, transgender people, and other gender and sexual minorities. In each case, exclusion is based on the premise ... Weiterlesen

Gloria Anzald�a: Borderlands / La Frontera

USA 2012, 304pp., brochure, € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.

Rooted in Gloria Anzald�a's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity. �Borderlands / La Frontera� remaps our understanding of what a �border� is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but ... Weiterlesen

Robert Aldrich: Gay Life Stories

UK 2023, 336 pp., pb., € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Thames and Hudson

A fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout time and across the globe whose lives have influenced society at large, as well as what we recognize as today's varied gay culture, this book gives a voice to more than 80 people from every major continent and from all walks of life. It includes poets and philosophers, rulers and spies, ... Weiterlesen

Kira Cochrane (ed.): Women of the Revolution

Forty Years of Feminism. UK 2012, 396 pp., brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Guardian

When hundreds gathered in 1970 for the first British women's liberation conference, a movement that had been gathering strength for years burst into a frenzy of radical action that was to transform the way we think, act, and feel. This collection of the Guardian's best articles and interviews is the ultimate portrait of an ongoing revolution. This anthology produces a ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Schulman: Israel / Palestine and the Queer International

USA 2012, 194 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Duke University Press

In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Invited to Israel to give the keynote address at an LGBT studies conference at Tel Aviv University, Schulman declines, joining other activists and academics honoring the Palestinian call for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel. ... Weiterlesen

Louis-Georges Tin: The Invention of Heterosexual Culture

USA/UK 2012, 197 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
MIT Press

Heterosexuality is celebrated - in film and on TV, in pop songs and opera, in literature and on greeting cards - and at the same time taken for granted. It is the cultural and sexual norm by default. And yet, in premodern Europe heterosexuality was perceived as an alternative culture. The practice of heterosexuality may have been standard, but the ... Weiterlesen

St. Sukie de la Croix: Chicago Whispers

A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall. USA 2012, 326 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 39.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
University of Wisconsin Press

This book illuminates a colorful and vibrant record of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people who lived and loved in Chicago from the city's beginnings in the 1670s as a fur-trading post to the end of the 1960s. The author reclaims Chicago's LGBT past that had been forgotten, suppressed, or overlooked. Included here are Jane Adams, the pioneer of American ... Weiterlesen

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

UK/USA 2011, 720 pp., brochure, € 67.99
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Taylor and Francis

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

Vicki L. Eaklor: Queer America

A People's GLBT History of the United States. USA 2011, 274pp. illustrated, brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

This narrative history of the U.S. places GLBT people at the center of the story. It brings vividly to life the people whose work helped change the course of the 20th century. From organizing personal lives in the 19th century and constructing the medical model of homosexuality, the Harlem Renaissance, the Depression, and the New Deal, the queer situation during ... 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
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

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

Heather Love: Feeling Backward

Loss and the Politics of Queer History. USA/UK 2009, 196 pp., brochure, € 45.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Harvard University Press

Now that, in the latest twist of tolerance, gays are required to flaunt their well-adjustedness, this book may feel backward indeed as it cotemplates the pain, anger, isolation, and sheer crankiness prominent in literary figures of our queer past. It weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for ... Weiterlesen

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

A Social History of the Movement for Homosexual Rights. USA 2009, 260 pp., brochure, € 32.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.

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

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

The Early Years of Gay Liberation. USA 2009, 304 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

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
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.

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

Amin Ghaziani: The Dividends of Dissent

USA 2008, 419 pp., brochure, € 29.99
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.

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

Jennifer Baumgardner: Look Both Ways

USA 2008, 244 pp., brochure, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Bisexuality has always been more than �the sexual non-preference of the '90s�. In her book, the author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner takes a close look at gay and bisexual people on the national cultural stage and the issues their growing visibility raises, particularly for younger women navigating the murky waters of identity. In a society supposedly grown more open and ... Weiterlesen

Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider

Foreword by Cheryl Clarke. USA 2007 (1984), 190 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Crossing Press

Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, �Sister Outsider� celebrates an influential voice in 20th-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle ... Weiterlesen

Katherine V. Forrest, Jim van Buskirk (eds.): Love, Castro Street

USA 2007, 288 pp., brochure, € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.

Because San Francisco has seemingly always been a leading city for both cultural and societal change, it's only natural that there is good literature about the gay scene there. Castro Street has always played a major role in the shaping of gay identity - it's as mythological as it's real. Castro Street has always been a home - both ideological ... Weiterlesen

Seiten zu diesem Thema: < zurück 1 2 3 4 weiter >