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Paul Baker: Fabulosa!

Paul Baker: Fabulosa!

The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language. UK 2020, 320 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 19.95
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Reaktion
Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the 20th century. It offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage and a means of identification. Its colorful roots are varied -from Cant to Lingua Franca to dancers' slang - and in the mid-1960s it was thrust into the limelight by the characters ... Weiterlesen

Rusty Barrett: From Drag Queens to Leathermen

Rusty Barrett: From Drag Queens to Leathermen

Language, Gender, and Gay Male Subcultures. UK 2017, 251 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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Oxford University Press
This book examines gendered language use in six gay male subcultures: drag queens, radical faeries, bears, circuit boys, barebackers, and leathermen. Within each subculture, unique patterns of language use challenge normative assumptions about gender and sexual identity. Rusty Barrett's analyses of these subcultures emphasize the ways in which gay male constructions of gender are intimately linked to other forms of ... Weiterlesen

Various Artists: The Gay 90's (Popular music from Victorian musical shows and other favourites)

Various Artists: The Gay 90's (Popular music from Victorian musical shows and other favourites)

UK 2006, CD mit 20 Tracks, € 19.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
1 Runaway Girl / The Singing Girl / Land Of My Home / Far Away Over The Sea / Society / Soldiers In The Park
2 Robin Hood
3 Florodora / The Shade Of The Palm / Silver Star Of Love / Shade Of The Palm
4 Belle Of New York / They All Follow Me / We'll Stand And Die Together / ... Weiterlesen

Lisa L. Moore: Sister Arts

Lisa L. Moore: Sister Arts

The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes. USA 2011, 244 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 59.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
University of Minnesota Press - Queer Studies
In the great age of English garden design, 18th-century women working in the »sister arts« of painting, poetry, and landscape gardening adapted the Linnaean system of plant classification and the tradition of the erotic garden to create art with and for other women that celebrated everything from classical friendship to erotic love. In this book, filled with lush illustrations and ... Weiterlesen

William L. Leap, Tom Boellstorff (eds.): Speaking in Queer Tongues

William L. Leap, Tom Boellstorff (eds.): Speaking in Queer Tongues

Globalization and Gay Language. USA 2004, 288 pp., brochure, € 54.95
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Language is a fundamental tool for shaping identity and community, including the expression (or repression) of sexual desire. The author investigates the tensions and adaptations that occur when processes of globalization bring one system of gay or lesbian language into contact with another. Western constructions of gay culture are now circulating widely beyond the boundaries of Western nations due to ... Weiterlesen

Paul Baker: Fantabulosa

Paul Baker: Fantabulosa

A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang. USA/UK 2002, 242 pp., brochure, € 39.99
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Polari has been the secret language of gay men and women through the 20th century. But more than a language, Polari is an attitude. From the prisons and music halls of Edwardian England to Kenneth Williams, American GIs in London and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Polari has been used to laugh, to bitch, to gossip and to cruise. Since ... Weiterlesen

Heinrich Detering: Das offene Geheimnis

Heinrich Detering: Das offene Geheimnis

D 2013, 431 S., Broschur, € 26.80
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Bereits 1994 erstmals erschienen, veröffentlicht der Verlag nun eine durchgesehene Studienausgabe dieser spannenden literaturwissenschaftlichen Studie. Detering geht davon aus, dass die Tabuisierung von Homosexualität die Entstehung von Literatur entscheidend beeinflusste. Er sieht die Camouflage, das Verstecken bzw. Verschleiern homosexuellen Begehrens als eines der zentralen Momente der literarischen Produktion von Winckelmann bis Thomas Mann. Ausführlich analysiert er die Schriften Wickelmanns dessen ... Weiterlesen

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