Kevin Walby: Touching Encounters

Sex, Work, and Male-for-Male Internet Escorting. USA 2013, 219 pp, brochure, € 32.95
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Often depicted as deviant or pathological by public health researchers, psychoanalysts, and sexologists, male-with-male sex and sex work is, in fact, an increasingly mainstream pursuit. Based on a qualitative investigation of the practices involved in male-with-male Internet escorting, »Touching Encounters« is the first book to explicitly address how masculinity and sexuality shape male commercial sex in this era of Internet ... Weiterlesen

Margret Grebowicz: Why Internet Porn Matters

USA 2013, 135 pp., brochure, € 17.99
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Stanford University Press
Now that pornography is on the Internet, its political and social functions have changed. So contends Grebowicz in this philosophical analysis of Internet porn, in her account, are symptoms of the obsession with self-exposure in today's social networking media, which is, in turn, a symptom of the modern democratic construction of the governable subject as both transparent and communicative. In ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Solomon: Far from the Tree

Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity. USA 2012, 976 S., brochure, € 18.50
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Simon and Schuster
In »Far from the Tree«, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so. Solomon's startling proposition is that diversity is what unites us all. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, multiple severe disabilities, with children who are ... Weiterlesen

Jeffrey Angles: Writing the Love of Boys

Origins of Bishonen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature. USA 2011, 303 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 39.95
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University of Minnesota Press - Queer Studies
Despite its centuries-long tradition of literary and artistic depictions of love between men, around the fin de siècle Japanese culture began to portray same-sex desire as immoral. This book looks at the response to this mindset during the critical era of cultural ferment between the two world wars. The author focuses on key writers, examining how they experimented with new ... 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

Scott Herring: Another Country

Queer Anti-Urbanism. USA/UK 2010, 235 pp. with illustrations + photographs, brochure, € 44.95
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New York University Press
The metropolis has been the near exclusive focus of queer scholars and queer cultures in America. Asking us to look beyond the cities on the coasts, the author draws a new map, tracking how rural queers have responded to this myopic mindset. Interweaving a wide range of disciplines - art, media, literature, performance, and fashion studies - he develops an ... Weiterlesen

Barry Reay: New York Hustlers

Masculinity and Sex in Modern America. UK/USA 2010, 279pp., brochure, € 39.95
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This book - looking back from the 1990s into the early decades of the 20th century - maps the world of those known as »trade« - ostensibly straight men who would engage in homosexual sex - and hustlers - those who were paid for it. It was a milieu that was central to the sexual histories of several generations of ... Weiterlesen

Paul Jackson: One of the Boys

Homosexuality in the Military during World War II. CAN/UK/USA 2010, 338 pp., brochure, € 67.99
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Homosexuality and military service have made strange bedfellows over the last century. Military leaders have generally seen homosexuals as unmanly, immoral, and - according to the U.S. military - a threat to unit cohesion, a claim that continues to prop up the controversial »don't ask, don't tell« policy. Struggles for equal rights have not been limited to the USA: during ... Weiterlesen

Alex Espinoza: Cruising

An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime. USA 2009, 237 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Publishers Group West
From Greek antiquity to the notorious Molly houses of 18th century England, the raucous 1970s to the algorithms of Grindr, Oscar Wilde to George Michael, cruising remains at once a reclamation of public space and the creation of its own unique locale - one in which men of all races and classes interact, even in the shadow of repressive governments. ... Weiterlesen

M. Paz Galupo (ed.): Bisexuality and Same-Sex Marriage

UK/USA/CAN 2009, 213pp., brochure, € 39.99
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In our society, the argument for or against same-sex marriage becomes even more heated when the debate turns to bisexual women and men. The book explores this debate from a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives, presenting respected scholars from fields as diverse as American Studies, Communication, Criminology, Human and Organizational Systems, Law and Social Policy, LGBT Studies, Organizational Behavior, Psychology, ... 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

Ladelle McWhorter: Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America

A Genealogy. USA 2009, 430 pp., brochure, € 29.99
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Does the black struggle for civil rights make common cause with the movement to foster queer community, protest anti-queer violence or discrimination, and demand respect for the rights and sensibilities of queer people? Confronting this emotionally charged question, the author reveals how a carefully structured campaign against abnormality in the late 19th and early 20th centuries encouraged white Americans to ... Weiterlesen

Dossie Easton und Janet W. Hardy: The Ethical Slut

A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures. USA 2009 (3rd edition, updated & expanded), 320 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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This 1997 groundbreaking book gave sluts a good name. It is now available again in an updated, expanded 2nd edition. If you've ever yearned for love, sex, and intimacy beyond the limits of conventional monogamy, this book will open up to infinite possibilities. Relationship pioneers Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy dispel myths about sluthood and show how to maintain ... Weiterlesen

Tim Dean: Unlimited Intimacy

Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking. USA 2009, 237 pp., brochure, € 31.95
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Barebacking (when gay men deliberately abandon condoms and embrace unprotected sex) has incited a great deal of shock, outrage, anger, and even disgust, but very little contemplation. Purposely flying in the face of decades of safe-sex campaigning and HIV/AIDS awareness initiatives, barebacking is unquestionably radical behavior, behavior that most people would rather condemn than understand. Thus the time is ripe ... 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

Mickey Weems: The Fierce Tribe

Masculine Identity and Performance in the Circuit. USA 2008, 272 pp., hardback, € 30.99
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The author applies an overtly interdisciplinary interpretation to a subject that demands such a breakdown of intellectual boundaries. In a kind of ethnography the book documents the folk nature of popular culture. »The Circuit«, an expression of gay culture, comprises large dance events (gatherings, celebrations, communions, festivals). Music and dance drive a complex, shared performance at these events?electronic house music ... Weiterlesen

Dagmar Herzog: Sex in Crisis

USA 2008, 249 pp., hardbound, € 21.39
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The religious right has fractured, the pundits tell us, and its power is waning. Is it true - have evengelical christians lost their political clout? When the subject is sex, the answer is definitively no. Only three decades after the legalization of abortion, the broad gains of the feminist movement, and the emergence of the gay rights movement, Americans appear ... Weiterlesen