Brian van Reet: Spoils

UK 2018, 272 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Vintage
It is the spring of 2003 and coalition forces are advancing on Iraq. 19-year-old Specialist Cassandra Wigheard, on her first deployment since joining the US army two years earlier, is primed for war. Being a lesbian is both obvious for everyone and never discussed. Two decades of fighting - and the new wave of super-radicalised fighters have joined the ranks ... Weiterlesen

Jin Haritaworn / Adi Kuntsman / Silvia Posocco (ed: Queer Necropolitics

UK 2015, 222 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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Taylor and Francis
This book comes at a time when the intrinsic and self-evident value of queer rights and protections, from gay marriage to hate crimes, is increasingly put in question. It assembles writings that explore the new queer vitalities within their wider context of structural violence and neglect. Moving between diverse geopolitical contexts - the US and the UK, Guatemala and Palestine, ... Weiterlesen

Carrie L. Buist / Emily Lenning: Queer Criminology

UK 2015, 144 pp., brochure, € 79.95
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Taylor and Francis
In this book, Carrie L. Buist and Emily Lenning reflect on the origins of Queer Criminology, survey the foundational research and scholarship in this emerging field, and offer suggestions for the future. Covering topics such as the criminalization of queerness; the policing of Queer communities; Queer experiences in the courtroom; and the correctional control of Queer people, »Queer Criminology« synthesizes ... Weiterlesen

Piper Kerman: Orange is the New Black

USA 2013, 344pp., brochure, € 19.95
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With her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious young woman who got mixed up with drug runners and delivered a suitcase of drug money to Europe over a decade ago. But when she least expects it, her reckless past catches up with her; convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at an infamous women's prison ... Weiterlesen

Herta Müller: The Hunger Angel

English translation by Philip Boehm. USA 2013, 289 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Picador
It was an icy morning in January 1945 when the patrol came for 17-year-old Leo Auberg to deport him to a camp in the Soviet Union. He is gay, and hemmed in, imprisoned already, by the laws and misplaced narrow morality of the town. He has already found the joys of sex in secluded wooded areas or empty bath house ... Weiterlesen

T. J. Parsell: Fish. A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison

USA 2006, 324 pp, pb, € 24.95
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When seventeen-year-old T.J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and a half to fifteen years in prison. The first night of his term, four older inmates drugged Parsell and took turns raping him. When they were through, they flipped a coin to decide who would »own« him. Forced to remain ... Weiterlesen

Reginald L. Hall: Memoir: Delaware County Prison

USA 2004, 193 pp., brochure, € 12.69
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After committing credit card fraud at a local department store, 18-year-old Reginald Hall lands an 8-month sentence at the Delaware County Prison. What complicates his life as an inmate is his sexual orientation. In life, being gay is difficult enough - in prison, it can be a horrendous ordeal. Attempting suicide, taking drugs, and having illicit sex were only some ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Waters: Affinity

UK 2000, 352 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Margaret Prior is a prison visitor in the 1870s. Set in and around Milbank, one of London's most notorious gaols for women, the story is both a both a ghost story and an intriguing lesbian literary mystery tale.

Oscar Wilde: De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol & Other Writings

UK 1999, 296 pp.,brochure, € 12.95
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Wordsworth
De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde's literary executor. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a deeply moving and characteristically generous poem on the horrors of prison life, which was published anonymously in 1898. This collection ... Weiterlesen

Brendan Behan: Borstal Boy

UK 1990, 372 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Arrow
In 1939, Liverpool, 16 year-old Brendan Behan is arrested for carrying explosives in his suitcase. A fervent republican undergoing a mission for the IRA, with designs to blow up a shipyard, Behan is sentenced to three years Borstal detention as he is a minor, and cannot be given the death sentence. - In this autobiography, Behan writes about the experiences ... Weiterlesen

Jean Genet (R): Un chant d'amour

F 1950, SW 25 min., Stummfilm mit Musik, € 19.99
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Jean Genet verfasste das Drehbuch und führte Regie bei seinem einzigen Film »Un chant d'amour«. In einem Gefängnis finden zwei Männer ohne Worte zu einer einzigartigen und beeindruckenden Intimität. Expliziter Sex wechselt mit romantischer Nähe und erotischen Spielen. Ein Klassiker des schwulen Films.
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