Samuel Clowes Huneke: States of Liberation

Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany. UK 2022, 380 pp., brochure, € 49.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
University of Toronto Press
States of Liberation traces the paths of gay men in East and West Germany from the violent aftermath of the Second World War to the thundering nightclubs of present-day Berlin. Following a captivating cast of characters, from gay spies and Nazi scientists to queer politicians and secret police bureaucrats, States of Liberation tells the remarkable story of how the two ... Weiterlesen

Javier Samper Vendrell: The Seduction of Youth

Print Culture and Homosexual Rights in the Weimar Republic. USA 2020, 280 pp., brochure, € 59.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
University of Toronto Press
A simple man from the provinces, Friedrich Radszuweit merged popular culture, consumerism, and politics as the leader of the League for Human Rights, Germany's first mass homosexual organization. The Seduction of Youth is the first study to focus on the League and its leader, using his position at the centre of the Weimar-era gay rights movement to tease out the ... Weiterlesen

Amelia Abraham: Queer Intentions

A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture. UK 2019, 326 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Picador
Today, the options and freedoms on offer to LGBTQ+ people living in the West are greater than ever before. But is same-sex marriage, improved media visibility and corporate endorsement all it's cracked up to be? At what cost does this acceptance come? And who is getting left behind, particularly in parts of the world where LGBTQ+ rights aren't so advanced? ... Weiterlesen

Frédéric Martel: Global Gay

How Gay Culture Is Changing the World. USA 2018, 296 pp., hardback, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
MIT Press
In »Global Gay«, Frédéric Martel visits more than fifty countries and documents a revolution underway around the world: the globalization of LGBT rights. From Saudi Arabia to South Africa, from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv, from Singapore to the United States, activists, culture warriors, and ordinary people are part of a movement. Martel finds that although the »gay American way of ... Weiterlesen

Carrie L. Buist / Emily Lenning: Queer Criminology

UK 2015, 144 pp., brochure, € 79.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
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

Michelangelo Signorile: It's Not Over

Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality. USA 2015, 272 pp., hardback, € 27.99
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Marriage equality has surged across the country. Closet doors have burst open in business, entertainment, and even major league sports. But the excitement of such breathless change makes this moment more dangerous than ever. Puncturing the illusion that victory is now inevitable, the author marshals stinging evidence that an age-old hatred, homophobia, is still a basic fact of American life. ... Weiterlesen

Thomas Spijkerboer: Fleeing Homophobia

Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Asylum. UK 2015, 264 pp., brochure, € 59.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Routledge
Each year, thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex asylum seekers apply for asylum in EU member states. This book considers the position of LGBTI asylum seekers in European asylum law. Developing an encompassing approach to the topic, the book identifies and analyzes the main legal issues arising in relation to LGBTI people seeking asylum including: the underestimation of ... Weiterlesen

Linda Hirshman: Victory

The Triumphant Gay Revolution. USA 2013, 444 pp., brochure, € 27.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Harper Collins
When the modern struggle for gay rights erupted - most notably at a bar called Stonewall in Greenwich Village - in the summer of 1969, most religious traditions condemned homosexuality, psychiatric experts labeled people who were attracted to others of the same sex »crazy«, and 49 states in the USA outlawed sex between people of the same gender. 40 years ... Weiterlesen
Titel vergriffen, auf Anfrage versuchen wir gerne, ihn antiquarisch zu besorgen.

Michael J. Klarman: From the Closet to the Altar

Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage. USA 2012, 276 pp., hardbound, € 36.99
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Oxford University Press
Same-sex marriage has become one of the most volatile issues in American politics. But if most young people support gay marriage, and if there are clear indicators that a substantial majority of the population will soon favor it, why has the outcry against it been so strong? There author offers an account of modern litigation over same-sex marriage. After looking ... Weiterlesen

Dale Carpenter: Flagrant Conduct

How a Bedroom Arrest Decriminalized Gay Americans. USA 2012, 347 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, hardbound, € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
W. W. Norton
No one could have predicted that the night of September 17, 1998, would be anything but routine in Houston, Texas. Nobody could have imagined that the arrest of two men for a minor criminal offense would reverberate in American constitutional law, exposing a deep malignity in the judicial system and challenging the traditional conception of what makes a family. »Lawrence ... Weiterlesen

Margot Canaday: The Straight State

Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. USA 2011, 277 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The University Press Group
Unearthing new evidence from the National Archives, the author shows how the U.S. government came to systematically penalize homosexuals, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under today. She looks at three key arenas of government control - immigration, the military, and welfare - and demonstrates how federal enforcement of sexual norms emerged and ... Weiterlesen

Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, Kay Whitlock: Queer (In)Justice

The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States. USA 2011, 216pp., hardbound, € 31.99
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
In March 2003 - more than three decades after Stonewall - police stormed the Power Plant, a private Detroit club frequented by African American LGBT people. Over 350 people were handcuffed and subjected to homophobic slurs. Some were hit on the head and back. Others were slammed into walls. Their supposed crime was later chalked up to a bizarre infraction: ... Weiterlesen

Stuart Biegel: The Right to Be Out

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America's Public Schools. USA 2010, 303 pp., brochure, € 18.30
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
University of Minnesota Press - GLBT Studies
Despite significant advances for gay and transgender persons in the U.S., the public school environment remains daunting, even frightening, as evidenced by numerous high-profile incidents of discrimination, bullying, violence, and suicide. Yet efforts to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students and educators, or to enhance curricula to better reflect the experience of differing sexual orientations and ... Weiterlesen

Carlos A. Ball: From the Closet to the Courtroom

Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation. USA 2010, 286pp., hardbound, € 24.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The advancement of LGBT rights has occurred through struggles large and small - on the streets, around kitchen tables, and on the Web. Lawsuits have also played a vital role in propelling the movement forward, and behind every case in a human story: a landlord in New York seeks to evict a gay man from his home after his long-time ... Weiterlesen

Martha C. Nussbaum: From Disgust to Humanity

Sexual Orientation & Constitutional Law. USA 2010, 217pp., hardbound, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Oxford University Press
In this book, the author aims her considerable intellectual firepower at a key source of opposition to gay equality: the politics of disgust. She argues that disgust has been among the fundamental motivations of those who are fighting for a variety of legal restrictions affecting lesbian and gay citizens. When confronted with the thought of homosexuality, she writes, they experience ... Weiterlesen

David A.J. Richards: The Sodomy Cases

Bowers v. Hardwick and Lawrence v. Texas. USA 2009, 214 pp., brochure, € 20.59
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The US Supreme Court's decision in Bowers v. Hartwick (1986) stemmed from a 1982 gay-sex arrest in an Atlanta home under a Georgia law that criminalized »sodomy« - a case not originally prosecuted, but then pursued in court to challenge the statute's constitutionality. Lawrence v. Texas (2003) followed a similar arrest in 1998 in Houston, where Texas law also criminalized ... Weiterlesen

Nancy D. Polikoff: Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage

Valuing All Families under the Law. USA 2009, 259 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Nancy Polikoff asserts that, in American law, marriage is the dividing line between those relationships that matter and those that don't. A woman married to a man for 9 months receives Social Security benefits when he dies. A woman living for 19 years with a man or woman to whom she isn't married receives no government support. This book reframes ... Weiterlesen

Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, Shannon P. Mint: Transgender Rights

USA 2006,368 pp., brochure, € 19.39
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Examining crucial topics like family law, employment policies, public health, economics, and grass-roots organizing, the book is an resource in the fight for the freedom and equality of those who cross gender boundaries. Moving beyond media representations to grapple with the real lives and issues of transgender people, this book will launch a new moment for human rights activism in ... Weiterlesen