Rinaldo Hopf / Fedya Ili (Hg.): Mein schwules Auge 20 / My Gay Eye 20: Uncensored Special

D 2023, 400 S. mit zahlreichen Abb., Broschur, € 24.70
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konkursbuch - Mein schwules Auge 20
Die zweisprachige Ausgabe von »My Gay Eye/Mein Schwules Auge« für 2023 hat das Thema »Uncensored / Unzensiert«. Die Jubiläumsausgabe #20 ist ein Best-of der Künstler, Fotografen und Autoren aus den vergangenen 20 Jahren mit je neuen bzw. noch unbekannten Werken. U.a. von Pierre et Gilles, Norbert Bisky, Wolfgang Tillmans und Tom of Finland, außerdem Autoren wie Michael Sollorz, Arthur Rimbaud ... Weiterlesen

Kevin Brazil: Whatever Happened to Gay Happiness?

UK 2022, 231 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Cipher
In this highly accessible, entertaining and provocative work of non-fiction Kevin Brazil combines essay and memoir to ask one of the most pertinent questions of our current age: whatever happened to queer happiness? Exploring the lives of artists and writers from the past, current discourse around queerness and his own experiences, Brazil argues that art and literature needs to move ... Weiterlesen

Jack Guiness (ed.): The Queer Bible

UK 2021, 320 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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Harper Collins
A collection of essays written by queer icons, about the queer trailblazers throughout history who inspired them. From Elton John on Divine to Graham Norton on Armistead Maupin; Russell Tovey on David Robilliard to Lady Phyll on Moud Goba; Tan France on the Queer Eye cast to Mae Martin on Tim Curry, today's queer heroes write about the icons that ... Weiterlesen

Jen Winston: Greedy

Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much. USA 2021, 320 pp., brochure, € 25.95
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Simon and Schuster
This collection of essays, offering an intimate look at bisexuality, gender, and, of course, sex. Perfect for fans of Lindy West, Samantha Irby, and Rebecca Solnit. If Jen Winston knows one thing for sure, it's that she's bisexual. Or wait-maybe she isn't? Actually, she definitely is. Unless...she's not? Jen's provocative, laugh-out-loud debut takes us inside her journey of self-discovery, leading ... Weiterlesen

James Whiteside: Center Center

A Funny, Sexy, Sad Almost-Memoir of a Boy in Ballet. USA 2021, 240 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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Bantam
There's a mark on every stage around the world that signifies the center of its depth and width, called center center. James Whiteside has dreamed of standing on that very mark as a principal dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre ever since he was a 12-year-old blown away by watching the company's spring gala: the glamour, the virtuosity, the ... Weiterlesen

RuPaul: GuRu

USA 2018, 208 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 34.95
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Harper Collins
A timeless collection of philosophies from renaissance performer and the worlds most famous shape-shifter drag queen RuPaul, whose sage outlook has created an unprecedented career for more than thirty years. »GuRu« is packed with more than 80 beautiful photographs that illustrate the concept of building the life you want from the outside in and the inside out. »You're born naked ... Weiterlesen

Alexander Chee: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

USA 2018, 288 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Mariner
This is the author's manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and politics, and how the lessons learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have changed him. In these essays, he grows from student to teacher, reader to writer, and reckons with his identities as a son, a gay man, a Korean American, an artist, an activist, a ... Weiterlesen

Laurie Penny: Bitch Doctrine

Essays for Dissenting Adults. UK 2017, 384 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Bloomsbury
This collection of Laurie Penny's writing establishes her as one of the most urgent and vibrant feminist voices of our time. From the shock of Donald Trump's election and the victories of the far right, to online harassment and the transgender rights movement, these darkly humorous articles provoke challenging conversations about the definitive social issues of today. Penny is lyrical ... 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

Paisley Currah and Susan Stryker (eds.): Postposttransexual

Key Concepts for a 21st-Century Transgender Studies. USA 2014, 255 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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Duke University Press
This inaugural issue to the Transsexual Quarterly (TSQ) pays homage to Sandy Stone's field-defining »Posttranssexual Manifesto« and assesses where the field is now and where it seems to be heading. Comprising nearly sixty short essays by authors ranging from graduate students to senior scholars, the issue takes on such topics as biopolitics, disability, political economy, childhood, trans-of-color critique, area studies, ... Weiterlesen

John D'Emilio: In a New Century

Essays on Queer History, Politics, and Community Life. USA 2014, 282 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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A pioneering scholar of gay history, John D'Emilio reflects in this wide-ranging collection of essays upon the social, cultural, and political changes provoked by LGBT activism. He offers provocative questions and historical analyses: What can we learn from a life-long activist like Bayard Rustin, who questioned the wisdom of »identity politics«? Was Richard Nixon a »gay liberationist«? How can knowing ... Weiterlesen

Rae Spoon and Ivan E. Coyote: Gender Failure

CAN 2014, 256 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 27.95
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Arsenal Pulp Press
Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are accomplished, award-winning writers, musicians, and performers - they are also both admitted »gender failures«. In their first collaborative book, Ivan and Rae explore and expose their failed attempts at fitting into the gender binary, and how ultimately our expectations and assumptions around traditional gender roles fail us all. Based on their acclaimed 2012 ... Weiterlesen

Sigrid Schmitz / Grit Höppner (ed.): Gendered Neurocultures. Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Current Brain Discourses

Ö 2014, 403 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Zaglossus - challenge GENDER 2
Brain research is a key area of research to the question of what constitutes the human. With its methods of brain imaging human behavior seems to be explainable and predictable. This anthology presents from an interdisciplinary perspective differentiated analyses of scientific knowledge production that is concerned with sex/gender and the brain. It gains particular insights into the transformation or persistence ... Weiterlesen

Sushila Mesquita, M. K. Wiedlack, K. Lasthofer: IMPORT - EXPORT - TRANSPORT

Queer Theory, Queer Critique and Activism in Motion. Herausgegeben von Sushila Mesquita, Maria Katharina Wiedlack, Katrin Lasthofer Ö 2012, 349 S., Broschur, € 24.95
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Zaglossus - challenge GENDER 1
Twenty years after the emergence of »queer« as a political concept, the contributions to this anthology discuss the radical potential of queer theory and activism within different spatial, cultural, and socio-political contexts. Both the term »queer« as well as initial concepts of queer critique are not only closely connected to the English language but also to the Anglo-American socio-political context. ... Weiterlesen

Martin Gayford: A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney

UK 2011, 248 pp. with numerous b/w + color illustrations, hardbound, € 23.90
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Thames and Hudson
David Hockney is described as the world's most popular living painter. His exuberant work is widely loved, but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. Hockney reveals via reflection, anecdote, passion and humour the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. How does ... Weiterlesen

Max Goldt: Ein Buch namens Zimbo

Sie werden kaum ertragen, was Ihnen mitgeteilt wird. D 2011, 203 S., Pb, € 9.24
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Rowohlt
Neben der Neuauflage älterer »Klassiker« von Max Goldt gibt es nun auch einiges Neues von ihm zu lesen. Die Fans werden wie immer von seinem irrsinnigen Wortwitz gefangen genommen sein. Von »Staat, misch dich ein! Es wird auch dir nützen« über »Sodbrennen statt Snobismus, ich meine umgekehrt« und »Das Paradox und seine nimmermüde Volkstümlichkeit« bis hin zu »Feichte Brott« und ... Weiterlesen

Nuala O'Faolain: A Radiant Life

USA 2011, 302pp., brochure, € 15.95
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The selected journalism of Nuala O'Faolain presents an unequivocal voice - tackling a vast range of subjects - from Catholicism to Feminism - from Frank Sinatra to Africa - and from Irish American Culture to Islam and the West. Curious and funny, tender and scathing, O'Faolain's columns were never less than trenchant and always passionate. Through the prism of casual, ... Weiterlesen

Joan Gordon / Veronica Hollinger / Wendy Gay Pea: Queer Universes : Sexualities in Science Fiction

UK 2010, 256 pp., brochure, € 45.95
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Contestations over the meaning and practice of sexuality have become increasingly central to cultural self-definition and critical debates over issues of identity, citizenship and the definition of humanity itself. In an era when a religious authority can declare lesbians antihuman while some nations legalise same-sex marriage and are becoming increasingly tolerant of a variety of non-normative sexualities, it is hardly ... Weiterlesen