Chavoya Frantz: Axis Mundo

Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. USA 2018, 413 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 59.99
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Prestel
The powerful work of queer Chicano artists in Los Angeles is explored in this book. Working between the 1960s and early 1990s, the artists profiled in this compendium represent a broad cross section of L.A.'s art scene. With nearly 400 illustrations and ten essays, this volume presents histories of artistic experimentation and reveals networks of collaboration and exchange that resulted ... Weiterlesen

Stuart Feather: Blowing the Lid

Gay Liberation, Sexual Revolution and Radical Queens. USA 2016, 565 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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The Gay Liberation Front founded in 1970 urged gay men and gay women to unite around a simple set of demands among which were calls for an end to discrimination against homosexuals in employment, in sex education, in the age of consent and in being treated as sick by the medical establishment. GLF saw itself as a people's movement for ... Weiterlesen

Dan Nicoletta (ed.): LGBT San Francisco

The Daniel Nicoletta Photographs. USA 2017, 304 pp. illustrated, hardback, € 59.99
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Dan Nicoletta has been a leading chronicler of the LGBT civil rights movement in San Francisco over the last 40 years. This is the first book dedicated to his powerful photographs documenting the journey of the burgeoning lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender mecca that was San Francisco in the 1970s through to the present. Nicoletta is best known for his iconic images of Harvey ... Weiterlesen
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Darryl W. Bullock: David Bowie Made Me Gay

100 Years of LBGT Music. UK 2017, 372 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Bloomsbury
LGBT musicians have shaped the development of music over the last century, with a sexually progressive soundtrack in the background of the gay community's struggle for acceptance. LGBT messages are now brought to the forefront of popular music. This book covers the breadth of history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community and how those records influenced the ... Weiterlesen

Ruth Mazo Karras: Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others

UK 2017 (3rd edition), 258 pp., brochure, € 69.95
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Routledge
Challenging the way the Middle Ages have been treated in general histories of sexuality, Sexuality in Medieval Europe shows how views at the time were conflicted and complicated; there was no single medieval attitude towards sexuality any more than there is one modern attitude. Focusing on marital sexual activity, as well as behavior that was seen as transgressive, the chapters ... Weiterlesen

Bennett Singer and David Deschamps: LGBTQ Stats

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People by the Numbers. USA 2017, 224 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Perseus Group
20 years ago it was impossible to imagine the president of the United States embracing same-sex marriage or Bruce Jenner transitioning to Caitlyn Jenner, an open transgender woman. »LGBTQ Stats« chronicles the ongoing LGBTQ revolution, providing the critical statistics, and draws upon and synthesizes newly collected data. The authors provide chapters on family and marriage, workplace discrimination, education, youth, criminal ... Weiterlesen

Susan Stryker: Transgender History

The Roots of Today's Revolution. USA 2017 (rev. ed.), 301 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Seal
Covering American transgender history from the mid-20th century to today, the book takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II, trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication of »The Transsexual ... Weiterlesen

Katherine McFarland Bruce: Pride Parades

How a Parade Changed the World. USA 2016, 320 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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New York University Press
On June 28, 1970, two thousand gay and lesbian activists in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago paraded down the streets of their cities in a new kind of social protest, one marked by celebration, fun, and unashamed declaration of a stigmatized identity. With vivid imagery, and showcasing the voices of these participants, »Pride Parades« tells the story of Pride ... Weiterlesen

Elyse Semerdjian: Off the Straight Path: Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo

USA 2016, 247 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Elyse Semerdjian (teacher of Islamic and Middle Eastern history, Whitman College) analyzes how the shari'a courts of Ottoman Aleppo treated the crime of zina, which has been defined as »any sexual intercourse between persons who are not in a state of legal matrimony or concubinage,« and is thus an umbrella category for adultery, prostitution, procurement, abduction, incest, bestiality, sodomy, rape, ... Weiterlesen

Lilian Faderman: The Gay Revolution

The Story of a Struggle. USA 2016, 795 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 29.95
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Simon and Schuster
The story of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian, and trans rights from the 1950s to the present is based on interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists, and members of the entire LGBT community who face these challenges every day. The fight for gay, lesbian, and trans civil rights - the years of outrageous injustice, the early battles, the ... Weiterlesen

Adrian Brooks: The Right Side of History

100 Years of LGBTQI Activism. USA 2015, 242 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Cleis
How queer activists changed the United States of America, before, during and after Stonewall. Described by gay scholar Jonathan Katz as »willfully cacophonous, a chorus of voices untamed«, »On The Right Side of History« sets itself apart from oral histories by pinpointing how LGBTQ folk have been in the forefront of progressive social evolution in the United States, bringing attention ... Weiterlesen

Jan Seidl, Ruth J. Weiniger etc.: Queer Prague

A Guide to the LGBT History of the Czech Capital 1380 - 2000. CZ 2015, 171 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 14.95
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Cerne pole
This guide introduces 100 places which are connected with the past of the queer people of Prague. The book is designed to be a true guide book, i.e. a book of instructions for walking around the city. There is an orientation map of the given borough at the beginning of each chapter. The individual places of interest are marked in ... Weiterlesen

Kerry Eleveld: Don't Tell Me to Wait

How the Fight for Gay Rights Changed America and Transformed Obama's Presidency. USA 2015, 368 pp., hardbound, € 27.99
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Perseus Group
Gay rights has been a defining progressive issue of Barack Obama's presidency: Congress repealed »Don't Ask, Don't Tell« in 2010 with his strong support, and in 2011, he instructed his Justice Department to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act, helping to pave the way for a series of Supreme Court decisions that ultimately legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. This succession ... Weiterlesen

Deutsches Historisches Museum / Schwules Museum (e: Homosexualität_en

Companion volume to the exhibitions at Deutsches Historisches Museum and Schwules Museum Berlin. D 2015, 224 pp., brochure, € 25.70
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Sandstein
The Deutsches Historisches Museum and the Schwules Museum present the exhibition »Homosexuality_ies« from 26 June to 1 December 2015. »Homosexuality_ies« documents 150 years of the history, politics and culture of homosexual women and men in Germany. The exhibition shows how same-sex sexuality and non-conformist gender identities have been criminalized through legislation, pathologized in medicine and excluded from society. It traces ... Weiterlesen

Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon and Astrid Henry: Feminism Unfinished

A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movement. USA 2015, 256 pp. illustrated, pb., € 19.95
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W. W. Norton
Eschewing the conventional wisdom that places the origins of the American women's movement in the nostalgic glow of the late 1960s, this book traces the beginnings of this seminal American social movement to the 1920s, in the process creating an expanded, historical narrative that dramatically rewrites a century of American women's history. Also challenging the contemporary lean-in, trickle-down feminist philosophy ... Weiterlesen

Brooke Holmes: Gender

Antiquity and Its Legacy. UK/USA 2012, 213 pp., brochure, € 37.95
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I.B. Tauris
Gender has now become a pervasive topic in the humanities and social sciences. Yet despite the popularity of gender studies both inside and outside the academy, some have argued that the radical debates which first characterised gender studies have lost their critical edge. The author rescues ancient ideas about sex and gender with an eye towards reinvigorating contemporary debate. She ... Weiterlesen

Lisa L. Moore: Sister Arts

The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes. USA 2011, 244 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 59.95
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University of Minnesota Press - Queer Studies
In the great age of English garden design, 18th-century women working in the »sister arts« of painting, poetry, and landscape gardening adapted the Linnaean system of plant classification and the tradition of the erotic garden to create art with and for other women that celebrated everything from classical friendship to erotic love. In this book, filled with lush illustrations and ... Weiterlesen

Margot Canaday: The Straight State

Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. USA 2011, 277 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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The University Press Group
Unearthing new evidence from the National Archives, the author shows how the U.S. government came to systematically penalize homosexuals, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under today. She looks at three key arenas of government control - immigration, the military, and welfare - and demonstrates how federal enforcement of sexual norms emerged and ... Weiterlesen