Yvette Taylor: Working-Class Queers : Time, Place and Politics

UK 2023, 208 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Pluto
Who cares about working-class queers in Britain today? Are queers marginal to the study of class, and are the working-classes marginal to queer studies? Yvette Taylor critically engages with the experience of working-class queers through cycles of crisis, austerity, recession and migration to show how they have been underrepresented and demands that this changes. Drawing on growing academic and radical ... Weiterlesen

Daisy Jones: All the Things She Said

Everything I Know About Modern Lesbian and Bi Culture. UK 2022, 240 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Hodder and Stoughton
»All The Things She Said« explores the nature of 21st century queerness. Lesbian and bi culture is ever-changing and here, journalist Daisy Jones unpicks outdated stereotypes and shows how, over the past few years, the style and shared language of queer women has slowly infiltrated the mainstream. (Think less hemp sandals, IKEA trips and nut milks and more freedom, expression, ... Weiterlesen

Kevin Guyan: Queer Data

Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action. UK 2022, 240 pp., brochure, € 37.95
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Bloomsbury
Data has never mattered more. Our lives are increasingly shaped by it and how it is defined, collected and used. But who counts in the collection, analysis and application of data? This book is the first to look at »queer data« - defined as data relating to gender, sex, sexual orientation and trans identity/history. The author shows us how current ... Weiterlesen

Moisés Lino e Silva: Minoritarian Liberalism

A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela. USA 2022, 240 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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University of Chicago Press
A ethnography of the largest favela in Rio, where residents articulate their own politics of freedom against the backdrop of multiple forms of oppression. Liberalism mostly has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to rights-usually white, adult, heteronormative, and bourgeois - at the expense of marginalized groups, such as black people, children, lesbians, gays, transsexuals, and slum dwellers. ... Weiterlesen

Matt Brim: Poor Queer Studies

Confronting Elitism in the University. USA 2020, 247 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Duke University Press
In »Poor Queer Studies«, Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite education toward poor and working-class people, places, and pedagogies. Brim shows how queer studies also takes place beyond the halls of flagship institutions: in night school, after a three-hour commute, in overflowing classrooms at no-name colleges, with no research budget, without access to decent ... Weiterlesen

Schwules Museum Berlin (Hg.): Rainbow Arcade

Over 30 Years of Queer Video Game History. D 2019, 166 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 37.50
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Winterwork
Video games are an integral part of 20th- and 21st-century cultural history. Although their reception has changed a lot in the last decade, they often are still perceived as non-historical and non-political media. Museums and cultural institutions are slowly beginning to approach video games both as a cultural phenomenon and an art form, but their socio-political importance such as their ... Weiterlesen

Wim Peumans: Queer Muslims in Europe : Sexuality, Religion and Migration in Belgium

UK 2019, 304 pp., pb., € 49.95
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I.B. Tauris
Belgium was the second country in the world to introduce same-sex marriage. It has an elaborate legal system for protecting the rights of lesbian, gay, bi- and transsexual individuals in general and queer asylum seekers in particular. At the same time, since 2015 the country has become known as the »jihadi centre of Europe« and criticized for its »homonationalism« where ... Weiterlesen

Ana Hoffner: The Queerness of Memory

D 2018, 152 pp., brochure, € 18.50
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»The Queerness of Memory« proposes ways of remembering a past that cannot be clearly seen, one which is loaded with affective confusion, historical disorientation and the desire to return to that which still hurts. Ana Hoffner's series of art works and writings that are assembled in this book explore the politics of trauma and post '89 memory through the lens ... Weiterlesen

Frédéric Martel: Global Gay

How Gay Culture Is Changing the World. USA 2018, 296 pp., hardback, € 24.95
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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

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

Frank Browning: The Fate of Gender

Nature, Nurture, and the Human Future. USA 2017, 320 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Bloomsbury
This investigation on the modern fluidity of gender asks how people question what masculinity and femininity are, and how much of that is the result of biology and social conditioning. Social trends towards more gender fluidity were assisted by the separation of sex and reproduction after the introduction of contraceptives, and the spread of the idea of gender as performance. ... Weiterlesen

Bennett Singer and David Deschamps: LGBTQ Stats

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People by the Numbers. USA 2017, 224 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Perseus Group
20 years ago it was impossible to imagine the president of the United States embracing same-sex marriage or Bruce Jenner transitioning to Caitlyn Jenner, an open transgender woman. »LGBTQ Stats« chronicles the ongoing LGBTQ revolution, providing the critical statistics, and draws upon and synthesizes newly collected data. The authors provide chapters on family and marriage, workplace discrimination, education, youth, criminal ... Weiterlesen

Phillip M. Ayoub: When States Come Out

Europe's Sexual Minorities and the Politics of Visibility. USA/UK 2016, 275 pp., brochure, € 38.99
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Cambridge University Press
In the last two decades, the LGBT movement has gained momentum that is arguably unprecedented in speed and suddenness when compared to other human rights movements. This book investigates the recent history of this transnational movement in Europe, focusing on the diffusion of the norms it champions and the overarching question of why, despite similar international pressures, the trajectories of ... 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

John Browne: The Glass Closet

Why Coming Out Is Good Business. USA 2015, 240 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Random House
Today gay men and women in the Western world enjoy greater acceptance and more legal protection than ever before. Yet an alarming number of businessmen and women choose to remain closeted at work. In »The Glass Closet«, John Browne argues that whether you're lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or straight, it's better for you, your business and the economy when you ... Weiterlesen

David M. Halperin: How to Be Gay

USA 2014, 549 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Harvard University Press
If you assert that male homosexuality is a cultural practice, expressive of a unique subjectivity and a distinctive relation to mainstream society, people will immediately protest. Such an idea is just a stereotype - ridiculously simplistic, politically irresponsible, and morally suspect. The world acknowledges gay male culture as a fact but denies it as a truth. The author - pioneer ... Weiterlesen

Noelle M. Stout: After Love

Queer Intimacy and Erotic Encounters in Post-Soviet Cuba. USA 2014, 272 pp. with photographs, brochure, € 34.95
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Duke University Press
The anthropologist author arrived in Havana in 2002 to study the widely publicized emergence of gay tolerance in Cuba but discovered that the sex trade was dominating everyday discussions among gays, lesbians, and »travesties«. Largely eradicated after the Revolution, sex work, including same-sex prostitution, exploded in Havana when the island was opened to foreign tourism in the early 1990s. The ... Weiterlesen

Martin F. Manalansan, Chantal Nadeau, Richard T. R: Queering the Middle

Race, Religion, and a Queer Midwest. A Special Issue of GLQ. USA 2014, 228 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 15.99
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Duke University Press
When imagined in relation to other regions of the United States, the Midwest is often positioned as the norm, the uncontested site of white American middle-class heteronormativity. This characterization has often prevailed in scholarship on sexual identity, practice, and culture, but a growing body of recent queer work on rural sexualities, transnational migration, regional identities, and working-class culture suggests the ... Weiterlesen