Sharon Farmer and Carol B. Pasternack (eds.): Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages

USA 2003, 354 pp., brochure, € 44.95
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University of Minnesota Press
Nothing less than a rethinking of what we mean when we talk about »men« and »women« of the medieval period, this volume demonstrates how the idea of gender - in the Middle Ages no less than now - intersected in subtle and complex ways with other categories of difference. Responding to the insights of postcolonial and feminist theory, the authors ... Weiterlesen

Federico G. Carvajal: Butterflies Will Burn

USA 2003, 310 pp., brochure, € 33.99
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As Spain consolidated its Empire in the 16th and 17th centuries, discourses about the perfect Spanish man or »vir« went hand-in-hand with discourses about another kind of man, one who engaged in the »abominable crime and sin against nature« - sodomy. In both Spain and Mexico, sodomy came to rank second only to heresy as a cause for prosecution, and ... Weiterlesen

Eva Cantarella: Bisexuality in the Ancient World

USA 2002, 286 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Yale University Press
In this thought-provoking history of bisexuality in the classical age, Eva Cantarella draws on the full range of sources - from legal texts, inscriptions and medical documents to poetry and philosophical literature - to reconstruct and compare the bisexual cultures of Athens and Rome. Cantarella presents the ancient evidence, draws comparisons between heterosexuality and homosexuality, and elucidates the larger cultural ... Weiterlesen

Vern L. Bullough (Ed.): Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context

UK 2002, 464 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Routledge
Explore the early history of the gay rights movement In the words of editor Vern L. Bullough: »Although there was no single leader in the gay and lesbian community who achieved the fame and reputation of Martin Luther King, there were a large number of activists who put their careers and reputations on the line. It was a motley crew ... Weiterlesen

Henry Minton: Departing from Deviance

USA 2002, 344 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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The struggle to remove the stigma of sickness surrounding same-sex love has a long history. In 1973 the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its diagnostic classification of mental illness. But the groundwork for this pivotal decision was laid decades earlier. American gay and lesbian activists chose scientific research as a path for advancing homosexual rights. The history of gay ... Weiterlesen

Steven Angelides: A History of Bisexuality

USA 2001, 281 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Why is bisexuality the object of such scepticism? Why do sexologists steer clear of it in their research? Why has bisexuality, in stark contrast to homosexuality, only recently emerged as a nascent political and cultural identity? Bisexuality has been rendered as mostly irrelevant to the history, theory, and politics of sexuality. The author explores the reasons why, and invites us ... Weiterlesen

Mark Blasius, Shane Phelan (eds.): We Are Everywhere

USA/UK 1997, 844 pp., brochure, € 98.00
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This historical sourcebook of gay and lesbian politics brings together the key primary sources relating to the politics of homosexuality. Presenting political, historical, legal, literary and psychological documents which trace the evolution of the gay and lesbian movement, this edited volume includes such diverse documents as organization pamphlets, essays, polemics, speeches, newspaper and journal articles, and academic papers - from ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Goldberg (ed.): Queering the Renaissance

USA 1994, 388 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Duke University Press
»Queering the Renaissance« offers a major reassessment of the field of Renaissance studies. Gathering essays by sixteen critics working within the perspective of gay and lesbian studies, this collection redraws the map of sexuality and gender studies in the Renaissance. Taken together, these essays move beyond limiting notions of identity politics by locating historically forms of same-sex desire that are ... Weiterlesen

Whitney Davis (ed.): Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History

USA/UK 1994, 308 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 79.95
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Routledge
Find original research and interpretive studies of the relations between homosexuality and the visual arts. Evidence for the role of homosexuality in artistic creation has often not survived, in part because the direct expression of homosexuality has often been condemned in Western societies. »Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History« presents examples of contemporary art historical research on homoeroticism and ... Weiterlesen

Lillian Faderman: Surpassing the Love of Men

Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present. USA 1979, 496 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Womens Press
A quietly revolutionary book which reconstructs a lost history of women loving women. Here the author explores the different forms which that love has taken over the years, from the elaborate deceptions of Deborah Sampson, soldier of the American Revolution, to the genteel Ladies of Llangollen and the notorious »Boston marriages« of the 19th century. Drawing on a rich variety ... Weiterlesen

John Boswell: Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality

USA 1980, 424 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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John Boswell's highly acclaimed study of the history of attitudes toward homosexualiy in the Christian West challenges received opinion and our own preconceptions about the Chruch's past relationship to its gay members, among whom were priests, bishops and even canonized saints.

Martin Duberman: Stonewall

USA 1994, 330 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, was raided. But instead of the routine compliance expected by the police, patrons and a growing crowd decided to fight back. The 5 days of rioting that ensued changed forever the face of gay and lesbian life. Renowned historian and activist Martin Duberman now tells for ... Weiterlesen