Michael Bronski: A Queer History of the United States

USA 2011, 287 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in the early 1800s, refused to use pronouns, fought for gender equality, and led her own congregation in upstate New York. In the mid-19th century, actress Charlotte Cushman led an openly lesbian life, including a well-publized ... Weiterlesen

Vicki L. Eaklor: Queer America

A People's GLBT History of the United States. USA 2011, 274pp. illustrated, brochure, € 24.95
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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

Anna Clark (ed.): The History of Sexuality in Europe

A Sourcebook and Reader. UK/USA/CAN 2011, 358pp., brochure, € 89.95
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Taylor and Francis
In its introduction, »The Magnetic Poetry Kit of Sex«, the book surveys the field of sexuality and introduces the new concept of sexual grammar. The Reader focuses on the modern age, but has three chapters on the ancient and medieval worlds to demonstrate their very different cultures of sexuality. Altogether the book addresses questions such as: Why did ancient Greek ... Weiterlesen

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

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

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

Leila J. Rupp: Sapphistries

A Global History of Love Between Women. USA 2010, 303 pp., hardbound, € 149.95
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New York University Press
From the ancient poet Sappho to »tombois« in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with other women. This book tells their stories, capturing the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and place. The author reveals how, from the time of the earliest societies, the ... 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

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

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

Deborah Rudacille: The Riddle of Gender

USA 2006, 369 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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When the author learned that a close friend had decided to transition from female to male, she felt compelled to try to understand why her friend wanted to have testosterone injected and to undergo a mastectomy in order to live as a man. Coming at the subject from several angles - historical, sociological, psychological, medical - she discovered that gender ... Weiterlesen

David Carter: Stonewall

USA 2005, 336 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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In 1969, a series of riots over police action against the Stonewall Inn, a small, dark, mob-run gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the longtime landscape of homosexuals in society literally overnight. These weeklong protests are widely acknowledged as the »first shot« that ushered in a previously unimagined era of openness, political action, and massive social change. ... Weiterlesen

Judith A. Markowitz: The Gay Detective Novel

Lesbian and Gay Main Characters and Themes in Mystery Fiction. USA/UK 2004, 302 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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Gertrude Stein called it the only really modern novel form that has come into existence, yet the mystery genre was a century old before it featured its first gay main character. Since then, lavender detective fiction has been one of the fastest growing segments of the genre, incorporating gay and lesbian cultural elements and offering crossover appeal, yet it is ... Weiterlesen

Matti Bunzl: Symptoms of Modernity

Jews and Queers in Late-20th-Century Vienna. USA/UK 2004, 292 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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University of California Press
In the 1990s, Vienna's Jews and queers abandoned their clandestine existence and emerged into the city's public sphere in unprecedented numbers. »Symptoms of Modernity« traces this development in the context of Central European history. Jews and homosexuals are signposts of an exclusionary process of nation-building. Cast in their modern roles in the late 19th century, they functioned as »Others«, ... Weiterlesen