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

Phillip M. Ayoub: When States Come Out

Europe's Sexual Minorities and the Politics of Visibility. USA/UK 2016, 275 pp., brochure, € 38.99
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Cambridge University Press
In the last two decades, the LGBT movement has gained momentum that is arguably unprecedented in speed and suddenness when compared to other human rights movements. This book investigates the recent history of this transnational movement in Europe, focusing on the diffusion of the norms it champions and the overarching question of why, despite similar international pressures, the trajectories of ... Weiterlesen

Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and others (eds.): Trans Studies

The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities. USA 2016, 270 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Transgender people have rapidly gained public visibility, contesting many basic assumptions about what gender and embodiment mean. The vibrant discipline of Trans Studies explores such challenges in depth, building on the insights of queer and feminist theory to raise provocative questions about the relationships among gender, sexuality, and accepted social norms. »Trans Studies« is an interdisciplinary essay collection, bringing together ... Weiterlesen

Jemimah Steinfeld: Little Emperors and Material Girls

Sex and Youth in Modern China. UK 2015, 256 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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I.B. Tauris
Behind the headlines a once-in-a-generation sexual and cultural revolution is taking place in the bars, cafes and streets of China's mega-cities. The author meets the young people behind the world's fastest-moving nation to unveil their attitudes towards love, life and sexuality. Young Chinese have new words to describe the world they live in: »little emperors« - bossy and selfish single ... Weiterlesen

John Browne: The Glass Closet

Why Coming Out Is Good Business. USA 2015, 240 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Random House
Today gay men and women in the Western world enjoy greater acceptance and more legal protection than ever before. Yet an alarming number of businessmen and women choose to remain closeted at work. In »The Glass Closet«, John Browne argues that whether you're lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or straight, it's better for you, your business and the economy when you ... Weiterlesen

David M. Halperin: How to Be Gay

USA 2014, 549 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Harvard University Press
If you assert that male homosexuality is a cultural practice, expressive of a unique subjectivity and a distinctive relation to mainstream society, people will immediately protest. Such an idea is just a stereotype - ridiculously simplistic, politically irresponsible, and morally suspect. The world acknowledges gay male culture as a fact but denies it as a truth. The author - pioneer ... Weiterlesen

Noelle M. Stout: After Love

Queer Intimacy and Erotic Encounters in Post-Soviet Cuba. USA 2014, 272 pp. with photographs, brochure, € 34.95
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Duke University Press
The anthropologist author arrived in Havana in 2002 to study the widely publicized emergence of gay tolerance in Cuba but discovered that the sex trade was dominating everyday discussions among gays, lesbians, and »travesties«. Largely eradicated after the Revolution, sex work, including same-sex prostitution, exploded in Havana when the island was opened to foreign tourism in the early 1990s. The ... Weiterlesen

Martin F. Manalansan, Chantal Nadeau, Richard T. R: Queering the Middle

Race, Religion, and a Queer Midwest. A Special Issue of GLQ. USA 2014, 228 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 15.99
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Duke University Press
When imagined in relation to other regions of the United States, the Midwest is often positioned as the norm, the uncontested site of white American middle-class heteronormativity. This characterization has often prevailed in scholarship on sexual identity, practice, and culture, but a growing body of recent queer work on rural sexualities, transnational migration, regional identities, and working-class culture suggests the ... Weiterlesen

Elisabeth Sheff: The Polyamorists Next Door

Inside Multiple-Partner Relationships and Families. USA 2015, 325 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Rowman and Littlefield
Marriage and monogamy are not what they used to be, and today many couples are opting to start families before getting married, or deciding not to get married at all. At the same time, gay couples in states that recognize same-sex marriage are getting married in droves. Some people prefer non-monogamy and have relationships that include swinging and polyamory. The ... Weiterlesen

Mark McCormack: The Declining Significance of Homophobia

How Teenage Boys Are Redefining Masculinity and Heterosexuality. USA 2013, 166 pp., brochure, € 43.95
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Oxford University Press
Research has traditionally shown high schools to be hostile environments for LGBT youth. Boys have used homophobia to prove their masculinity and distance themselves from homosexuality. Despite these findings over the last three decades, »The Declining Significance of Homophobia« tells a different story. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews of young men in three British high schools, the author shows how ... Weiterlesen

Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini, Michael Amico (ed: »You Can Tell Just by Looking«

And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People. USA 2013, 190 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Beacon
This book breaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives. In »You Can Tell Just by Looking« three scholars and activists come together to unpack enduring, popular, and deeply held myths about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, culture, and life in America. Myths, such as »All Religions Condemn Homosexuality« and ... Weiterlesen

Christina B. Hanhardt: Safe Space

Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence. USA 2013, 358 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 39.95
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Duke University Press
Since the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and gay activists has been protection against street violence, especially in gay neighborhoods. During the same time, policymakers and private developers declared the containment of urban violence to be a top priority. The author examines how LGBT calls for »safe space« have been shaped by broader public safety initiatives that have sought ... Weiterlesen

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