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

David Valentine: Imagining Transgender

USA 2008, 303 pp., brochure, € 24.20
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This ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism shows how activists in the 1990s embraced the category. The category quickly gained momentum in public health, social service, scholarly, and legislative contexts. The author conducted ethnographic research among mostly male-to-female transgender-identified people at drag balls, support groups, cross-dresser organizations, clinics, ... Weiterlesen

Michael Thompson: Endowed

Regulating the Male Sexed Body. USA/UK 2008, 194 pp., brochure, € 35.30
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Taylor and Francis
Feminist legal scholars abd health care lawyers have long engaged with law's responses to the female reproductive body. Acknowledging this work and building upon it, »Endowed« considers the interaction of law and ideas of male productivity. In particular, it seeks to uncover what these regulatory moments can tell us about contemporary ideas and the ideas of masculinity and the male ... Weiterlesen

Susan Driver (ed.): Queer Youth Cultures

USA 2008, 307 pp., brochure, € 29.20
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Engaging a wide range of cultural practices, including zine-making, drag performance, online chatting, music, gay porn, and organizing resistance, the essays explore the creative, political, energetic, and artistic worlds of contemporary queer youth. The research in this collection bridges the perspectives of academics and queer youth, and the voices the youth resonate throughout the analyses of their communities and lives. ... Weiterlesen

Glyn Davis: Queer as Folk

UK 2007, 160 pp., brochure, € 19.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.  - BFI TV Classics
In the first critical study of this groundbreaking and controversial series - both the British original and the American remake - Glyn Davis examines in detail its conception, production, controversial content, marketing and reception. He situates »Queer as Folk« in relation to the history of »gay TV,« Channel 4's drama output, »New Labour« politics, and the »mainstreaming« of homosexuality in ... Weiterlesen

Khalil Amani: Hip-Hop Homophobes

USA 2007, 147 pp., brochure, € 16.99
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Khalil Amani has put homophobia on blast! 50 Cent, Eminem, DMX, Ja Rule, Busta Rhymes, Elephant Man, Buju Banton, Tim Hardaway, TD Jakes, Creflo Dollar, Bishop Eddie Long - their homophobia has been officially dismantled. Do they even know why they're homophobic? Homophobia is rooted in their Judeo-Christian upbringing. It doesn't matter how gangsta they are. They have been religiously/culturally ... Weiterlesen

Tom Boellstorff: The Gay Archipelago

USA 2007, 282 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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The University Press Group
The lives of gay men in Indonesia are, for the first time, explored in this book. Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous nation and home to more Muslims than any other country. Based on a range of field methods, it shows how Indonesian gay and lesbian identities are shaped by nationalism and globalization. The author examines the history of ... Weiterlesen

Jamye Waxman: Women Loving Women

USA 2007, 128 pp., brochure, € 19.39
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»Women Loving Women« explores the phenomenon of the contemporary »bi-sexual« or »lesbian« experience for the heterosexual woman. However, while lesbianism is indeed an emerging trend, it is also an age-old obsession that this book also addresses and places in a historical perspective. The book investigates the reasons modern women are more open to same-sex encounters, how these experiences can connect ... Weiterlesen

Jeffrey P. Dennis: Queering Teen Culture

USA 2006, 221 pp., brochure, € 16.59
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Is the overwhelming boy-meets-girl content of popular teen movies, music, books, and TV just a cover for an undercurrent of same-sex desire? From the 1950s to the present, popular culture has involved teenage boys falling for, longing over, dreaming about, singing to, and fighting over teenage girls. But »Queering Teen Culture« analyzes more than 200 movies and TV shows to ... Weiterlesen

Peggy J. Kleinplatz, Charles Moser (eds.): Sadomasochism - Powerful Pleasures

USA 2006, 365 pp., brochure, € 98.95
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This book explores the entire sexual subculture that lies on the cutting edge of society. Though vilified by society at large - all the way from the religious right to the feminist left - these interdisciplinary discussions of the latest research shed surprising light on SM practitioners, and their out-of-the-mainstream activities. Leading experts reveal the latest valuable information, research findings, ... Weiterlesen

Gordon Waitt, Kevin Markwell: Gay Tourism: Culture and Context

USA 2006, 307 pp., brochure, € 28.49
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Gay male tourism: »selling out« or »coming out«? The pink tourism dollar now represents a highly profitable niche of the tourist market. This book critically investigates the emergence of a commercial gay tourism industry for male clients, the way it is organized, and how the tourism industry promotes cities, resorts, and nations as »gay« destinations. This examination critically questions the ... Weiterlesen

Brian Whitaker: Unspeakable Love

UK 2011, 280 pp., pb., € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Homosexuality is still taboo in the Arab countries. While clerics denounce it as a heinous sin, newspapers, reluctant to address it directly, talk cryptically of »shameful acts« and »deviant behaviour«. Despite growing acceptance of sexual diversity in many parts of the world, attitudes in the Middle East have been hardening against it. In this absorbing account, journalist Brian Whitaker paints ... Weiterlesen

Peggy Drexler with Linden Gross: Raising Boys Without Men

USA 2006, 224 pp., brochure, € 12.39
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According to prevailing wisdom, a boy must be raised with a man in the house. Otherwise, he's bound to be a failure. That same wisdom tells us that mothers left to their own devices will smother their sons and turn them into sissies, and that sons of unmarried women are destined to a life of crime. The author wasn't quite ... Weiterlesen