Avgi Saketopoulou / Ann Pellegrini: Gender Without Identity

USA 2023, 180 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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The Unconscious in Translation
Gender Without Identity offers an innovative and at times unsettling theory of gender formation. Rooted in the metapsychology of Jean Laplanche and in conversation with bold work in queer and trans studies, Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini jettison "core gender identity" to propose, instead, that gender is something all subjects acquire and that trauma sometimes has a share in that ... Weiterlesen

Mithu M. Sanyal: Identitti

Transl. by Alta Price. D 2022, 400 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Voland und Quist
Nivedita (a.k.a. Identitti), a doctoral student who blogs about race with the help of Hindu goddess Kali, is in awe of Saraswati, her outrageous superstar post-colonial and race studies tutor. But Nivedita's life and sense of self begin to unravel when it emerges that Saraswati is actually white. Hours before she learns the truth Nivedita praises her tutor in a ... Weiterlesen

Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert: Gender as a Spectrum

D 2022, 294 S., geb., € 69.95
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Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert
Was macht einen Mann zum Mann? Und eine Frau zur Frau? Gibt es Menschen die weder Mann noch Frau sind? Oder vielleicht sogar beides. Die geschlechtliche Identität entwickelt sich mitunter fließend und verändert sich im Laufe eines Leben. Dabei bleibt sie stets sehr subjektiv und jeder Mensch empfindet und gestaltet die eigene Identität sehr individuell. Fotograf Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert hat ... Weiterlesen

Fletcher DeLancey: Catalyst

D 2016, 374 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Ylva Verlag - Chronicles of Alsea 4
After disobeying orders and saving the planet of Alsea from invasion, Captain Ekatya Serrado returns home a hero and renegade, alongside Dr. Lhyn Rivers, now the foremost authority on a culture that fascinates and terrifies. They share a secret: they are tyrees, linked by an Alsean empathic bond that should be biologically impossible for two Gaians. The secret could cost ... 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

Jack Halberstam: Gaga Feminism

Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal. USA 2012, 157 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Beacon
The author makes sense of the tectonic cultural shifts that have transformed gender and sexual politics in the last few decades. This colorful landscape is populated by symbols and phenomena as varied as pregnant men, late-life lesbians, SpongeBob SquarePants, and queer families. So how do we understand the dissonance between these real lived experiences and the heteronormative narratives that dominate ... Weiterlesen

Bruce Reis, Robert Grossmark (eds.): Heterosexual Masculinities

Contemporary Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Gender Theory. USA/UK 2009, 268 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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In recent years there have been substantial changes in approaches to how genders are made and what functions genders fulfill. Most of the scholarly focus in this areas of feminist, gay, and lesbian studies, and heterosexual masculinity - which tended to be defined by lack and absence - has not received the critical and scholarly attention these other areas have ... Weiterlesen

Sean Griffin (ed.): Hetero

Queering Representations of Straightness. USA 2009, 270 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Just as feminist scholars have turned to considerations of masculinity and scholars of race have begun to consider whiteness as a category, this collection brings the insights of queer theory to bear on cinematic representations of straightness. Spanning decades and cultures, from silent Hollywood films to modern Mumbai cinema, the essays in this book uncover multiple forms of heterosexual desire ... Weiterlesen

Judith Butler: Gender Trouble

USA 2006, 236 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Since its publication in 1990, »Gender Trouble« has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as »performativity ... Weiterlesen

Mai Ghoussoub, Emma Sinclair-Webb (eds.): Imagined Masculinities

Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East. UK 2006, 294 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Writings on gender in the Middle East have tended to focus on the status of women. Issues of Male identity, in a region which has seen enormous social change over the past decades, have been somewhat neglected. This book redresses this balance by examining masculinity as a social construct as diverse in its forms as femininity. Initiation rites, ritualised violence ... Weiterlesen

Judith Butler: Undoing Gender

USA 2004, 250 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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»Undoing Gender« constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic, social violence and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern - and fail to govern - gender and sexuality as they relate to the ... Weiterlesen

Luc Brisson: Sexual Ambivalence

USA 2002, 196pp., brochure, € 34.95
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This book collects and translates most of the extant Graeco-Roman writing on human beings, divinities, animals, and other creatures who were both female and male. The author provides a commentary that situates the rich source material within its historical and intellectual contexts. These selections- from mythological, philosophical, historical, and anecdotal sources - describe cases of either simultaneous dual sexuality, as ... Weiterlesen

Alice Domurat Dreger: Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex

USA 2000, 284 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Harvard University Press
Punctuated with remarkable case studies, this book explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphrodites - people born with »ambiguous« sexual anatomy - and the medical and scientific professionals who grappled with them. Alice Dreger focuses on events in France and Britain in the late 19th century, a moment of great tension for questions of sex roles. While feminists, homosexuals, and anthropological explorers ... Weiterlesen

Jack Halberstam: Female Masculinity

USA/UK 1998, 330 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Duke University Press
Masculinity without men: in »Female Masculinity«, Judith Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years. Providing the first full-length study on this subject, Halberstam catalogs the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from 19th-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag ... Weiterlesen

Gilbert Herdt (ed.): Third Sex, Third Gender

USA 1996, 614 pp, brochure, € 39.95
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In the 1990s, questions of sex roles and individual identity have taken a central position in intellectual debates. These eleven essays in history and anthropology offer a novel perspective on these debates by questioning the place of sexual dimorphism in culture and history. They propose a new role for the study of alternative sex and gender systems in cultural science, ... Weiterlesen

Judith Butler: Bodies That Matter

UK/USA/CAN 2011, 219 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Routledge
In »Bodies That Matter«, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most »material« dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the »matter« of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain »sex« from ... Weiterlesen