Jamye Waxman: Women Loving Women

USA 2007, 128 pp., brochure, € 19.39
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
»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
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
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

Ritch C. Savin-Williams: The New Gay Teenager

USA 2006, 288 pp., cloth, € 16.59
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Gay, straight, bisexual: how much does sexual orientation matter to a teenager's mental health or sense of identity? In this down-to-earth book, filled with the voices of young people speaking for themselves, the author argues that the standard image of gay youth presented by mental health researchers - as depressed, isolated, drug-dependent, even suicidal - may have been exaggerated even ... Weiterlesen

Eric Anderson: In the Game

Gay Athletes and the Cult of Masculinity. USA 2005, 208 pp., brochure, € 29.99
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
SUNY
Using interviews with openly gay and closeted team-sport athletes, the author examines how homophobia is reproduced in sport, how gay male athletes navigate this, and how American masculinity is changing. By detailing individual experiences, the author shows how these athletes are emerging from their athletic closets and contesting the dominant norms of masculinity. From the locker rooms of high school ... Weiterlesen

Tim Riley: Fever

USA 2005, 237 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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Tim Riley lives in New York and is the author of »Tell Me Why« and »Hard Rain«. His commentary on pop culture appeared in »The Washington Post«, »Boston Magazine«, »The Boston Phoenix«, »Salon« and »Feed«. He is currently the pop critic for NPR's »Here and Now«. In »Fever«, the music critic agues that while political and athletic role models have ... Weiterlesen

Michel Dorais: Rent Boys

UK 2005, 107 pp., brochure, € 16.59
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Debunking several myths, including the belief that all prostitutes are victims, »Rent Boys« paints a vivid picture of the men who service men. Through frank interviews with forty boys working in the sex industry, Michel Dorais shows that there are differences among them with regard to self-esteem, control over their lives, relationship to clients, and risk of HIV infection. He ... Weiterlesen

Helmut Graupner, Phillip Tahmindjis (eds.): Sexuality and Human Rights

A Global Overview. USA/UK/AUS 2005, 244 pp., brochure, € 27.99
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Human rights issues exist globally, particularly when they have to do with sexuality. This book focuses on the controversial issues of human sexuality and the legal challenges that LGBT individuals face. Internationally recognized legal experts discuss the status of important human rights laws pertaining to sexuality from around the world. This unique, up-to-date examination of the legal issues involving LGBT ... Weiterlesen

Randy Shilts: Conduct Unbecoming

USA 2005, 813 pp., brochure, € 19.39
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Randy Shilts, author of the classic documentary history of the AIDS epidemic, investigated the situation of lesbians und gays in the military by interviewing hundreds of servicepeople at all levels of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. Shilts' collage of historical research, interviews, and U.S. military documents (both public and confidential) portrays in detail the vital role ... Weiterlesen

D. Merilee Clunis etc.: Lives of Lesbian Elders

USA 2005, 209 pp., brochure, € 20.60
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
This book illuminates the hopes, fears, issues, and concerns of gay women as they grow older. Based on interviews with 62 lesbians ranging in age from 55 to 95, it provides a historical account of the shared experiences of the lesbian community that is so often invisible or ignored in contemporary society. Cast off and overlooked at best or victims ... Weiterlesen

D. Merilee Clunis etc.: Lesbian Couples

USA 2005, 355 pp., brochure, € 21.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Seal
Written by lesbian therapists, this book covers a range of topics, including commitment ceremonies and marriage, living arrangements, work, money, maintaining personal identities, coming out to family and friends, resolving conflict, and raising children. The book gives a variety of examples and problem-solving techniques drawn from extensive research, and emphasizes the issues that arise with couples of different races, classes, ... Weiterlesen

Joan Roughgarden: Evolution's Rainbow

Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People. USA 2005, 474 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, the author challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. An evolutionary biologist herself, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science, and even Darwin himself. She leads the reader through a discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, amphibians, reptiles, ... 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

Ara Wilson: The Intimate Economies of Bangkok

USA 2004, 272 pp., brochure, € 22.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
This portrait of the intertwining of identities, relationships, and economics during Bangkok's boom years uses case studies of women's and men's participation in a range of modern markets - department stores, go-go bars etc - the author chronicles the expansion of capitalist exchange into further reaches of Thai society. She shows how global economies have interacted with local systems to ... Weiterlesen

Ronald C. Fox (ed.): Current Research on Bisexuality

USA 2004, 280 pp., brochure, € 22.59
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
A crucial guide to current theory, research, and practice on bisexuality, which should be required reading for sex researchers - clinicians, academicians, and students alike - and practitioners. This book dispels myths about bisexuality, presenting quantitative and qualitative analyses, and conveys the rich lives of bisexual people with abundant anecdotes. It also shows that the subdiscipline of bisexual studies has ... Weiterlesen