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David Ebershoff: The Danish Girl

David Ebershoff: The Danish Girl

UK 2000, 336 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Copenhagen, 1925, the studio of American painter Greta Waud, anxious to put the finishing touches to her latest portrait. But her diva subject has cancelled yet another sitting - how is Greta ever going to get it done? A sudden glint in her eye, and she calls to her husband Einar. And so, late on an April afternoon, in a ... Weiterlesen

Thomas Page McBee: Amateur

Thomas Page McBee: Amateur

A True Story about What Makes a Man. UK 2018, 204 pp., hardbound, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Canongate
The author, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence. Through his experience boxing - learning to get hit, and to hit back - wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym - confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body - McBee ... Weiterlesen

Ellen Simpson: The Light of the World

Ellen Simpson: The Light of the World

D 2015, 357 pp., brochure, € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag
At the back of her grandmother's closet lies a mystery. After her grandmother's death, Eva finds a series of diaries detailing the life of a girl caught up in the magic of the Roaring 20s. She cannot reconcile the young woman in these diaries with the miserable old woman she loved so fiercely. What happened to change her grandmother so ... Weiterlesen

Zach Wahls with Bruce Littlefield: My Two Moms

Zach Wahls with Bruce Littlefield: My Two Moms

Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family. USA 2013, 236 pp. with b/w photographs, brochure, € 16.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA
On January 31, 2011, Zach Wahls addressed the Iowa House Judiciary Committee in a public hearing regarding a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Iowa. The then 19-year-old son of a lesbian couple proudly proclaimed: »The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character.« Hours later, his speech was posted on ... Weiterlesen

Timothy Mo: Pure

Timothy Mo: Pure

UK 2012, 388 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Turnaround
Anglo-Chinese author Timothy Mo - with a string of Booker Prize nominations - slipped off the radar when he moved to the Far East and started to self-publish his work. »Pure« - his new book - is a morally ambiguous romp about Islamic jihad in South East Asia as seen through the eyes of a rumbustious Thai ladyboy. Snooky, a ... Weiterlesen

Christine Benvenuto: Sex Changes

Christine Benvenuto: Sex Changes

A Memoir of Marriage, Gender, and Moving on. USA 2013, 295 pp., brochure, € 15.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
SMP
What do you do when the other woman is your husband? Christine and her husband had been married for 20 years and we raising their three children in a beautiful New England town. One night in bed he turned to her and said, »I'm thinking constantly about my gender«, adding that he was unhappy in his body and wanted to ... Weiterlesen

Joy Landin: Through the Door of Life

Joy Landin: Through the Door of Life

A Jewish Journey Between Genders. USA 2012, 255 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
University of Wisconsin Press - Living Out
Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned after a year of »involuntary research leave« to the orthodox Jewish campus as a woman - Joy Ladin. In this book, Joy Ladin takes readers inside her transition as she changed genders and, in the process, created a new self. With ... Weiterlesen

Staceyann Chin: The Other Side of Paradise

Staceyann Chin: The Other Side of Paradise

A Memoir. USA 2010, 282 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Scribner
No one knew Steceyann's mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother's house. Staceyann's mother didn't want her, and her father was not present. No one, except her grandmother, thought Staceyann would survive. It was her grandmother who nurtured and protected and provided for Staceyann and her older brother in the early ... Weiterlesen

Julia Serano: Whipping Girl

Julia Serano: Whipping Girl

A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. USA 2007, 390 pp., pb., € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
A provocative manifesto, »Whipping Girl« tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist. Serano shares her experiences and observations ? both pre- and post-transition ? to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape our societal attitudes toward ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Coe: The Rain Before It Falls

Jonathan Coe: The Rain Before It Falls

UK 2007, 278 pp., brochure, € 18.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
As 73-year-old Rosamond sits alone in her remote Shropshire house, her dying thoughts turn to her cousin's granddaughter, Imogen, who has been blind from an early age. Rosamond realizes that she has one last duty to perform: to describe on tape, for Imogen's benefit, a series of 20 photographs which between them tell a tragic family history. At the centre ... Weiterlesen

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