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

W. Jake Newsome: Pink Triangle Legacies

Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust. USA 2022, 286 pp., hardbound, € 49.95
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Cornell University Press
»Pink Triangle Legacies« traces the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a widespread, recognizable symbol of queer activism, pride, and community. The author provides an overview of the Nazis' targeted violence against LGBTQ people and details queer survivors' fraught and ongoing fight for the acknowledgement, compensation, and memorialization of LGBTQ ... Weiterlesen

Gila Ashtor: Homo Psyche

On Queer Theory and Erotophobia. USA 2021, 242 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Fordham University Press
Can queer theory be erotophobic? This book proceeds from the perplexing observation that for all of its political agita, rhetorical virtuosity, and intellectual restlessness, queer theory conforms to a model of erotic life that is psychologically conservative and narrow. Even after several decades of combative, dazzling, irreverent queer critical thought, the field remains far from grasping that sexuality's radical potential ... Weiterlesen

Maggie Nelson: On Freedom

UK 2021, 288 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Vintage
What can freedom really mean? In »On Freedom«, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience or talk about the concept in ways that are responsive to our divided world. Drawing on pop culture, theory and the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, she follows freedom - with all its complexities - through four realms: art, sex, drugs and ... Weiterlesen

Ben Nichols: Same Old

Queer Theory, Literature and the Politics of Sameness. UK 2020, 222 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Manchester University Press
»Same Old« offers a rethinking of positions that have defined queer theory since its inception in the early 1990s. Steeped in philosophical and political commitments to »difference«, queer theoretical frameworks have tended to assume that ideas related to »sameness« only thwart and stymie queer forms of life. But this book takes a number of these ideas as its focus - ... Weiterlesen

Melissa M. Wilcox: Queer Religiosities

An Introduction to Queer and Transgender Studies in Religion. USA 2020, 252 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Rowman and Littlefield
»Queer Religiosities« is a comprehensive, comparative, globally-focused textbook that introduces students to queer studies in religion. It is organized in a comparative, thematic format that allows readers to approach the study of queer religion from a variety of angles while teaching key principles in the study of religion and the study of sexuality and gender. »Queer Religiosities« aims to make ... Weiterlesen

Benjamin Moser: Sontag

Her Life and Work. USA 2020, 815 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 24.95
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Ecco
The portrait of one of the America's most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face. No writer is as emblematic of the American 20th century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of ... Weiterlesen

Susanne Jung: Bouncing Back

Queer Resilience in 20th and 21st Century English Literature and Culture. D 2020, 270 pp., brochure, € 40.99
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LGBTQ people have strategies of resilience at their disposal to help them deal with the challenge that heteronormativity as a power structure poses to their affective lives. This book makes the concept of resilience available to queer literary and cultural studies, analyzing these strategies in terms of narration, performance, bodies, and space. Resilience turns out to be a highly interactive ... Weiterlesen

Ivan Jablonka: A History of Masculinity

From Patriarchy to Gender Justice. UK 2019, 354 pp., hardbound, € 34.95
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Penguin UK
In this analysis, social historian Ivan Jablonka offers a re-examination of the patriarchy and its impact on men. Ranging widely across cultures, from Mesopotamia to Confucianism to Christianity to the revolutions of the 18th century, Jablonka uncovers the origins of our patriarchal societies. He then offers an updated model of masculinity based on a theory of gender justice which aims ... 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

Susan Sontag: Notes on Camp

UK 2018, 64 pp., pb., € 7.95
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Penguin UK
»The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.« - These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between »high« and »low« culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.

Judith Butler: Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

USA 2015, 256 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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Harvard University Press
Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analyzing what they signify and how. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, Butler extends her theory of performativity to argue that precarity the destruction of the conditions of livability has been a galvanizing force and theme in today's highly visible protests. Butler broadens the ... Weiterlesen

Beatriz Preciado: Testo Junkie

Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era. English by Bruce Benderson. USA 2013, 427 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Feminist Press
What constitutes a »real« man or woman in the 21st century? Since birth control pills, erectile dysfunction remedies, and factory-made testosterone and estrogen were developed, biology is definitely no longer destiny. In this penetrating analysis of gender, Beatriz Preciado shows the ways in which the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally changed how gender and sexual identity are ... Weiterlesen

Jack Halberstam: The Queer Art of Failure

USA/UK 2011, 212 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 49.95
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It's about finding alternatives - to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society, to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing, and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. The author proposes »low theory« as a mode of thinking and writing that operates at ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Reed: Art and Homosexuality

A History of Ideas. UK 2011, 285 pp., with numerous b/w and colour illustrations, hardbound, € 69.95
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Oxford University Press
This globe-spanning survey explores the radical, long-standing interdependence between art and homosexuality. It draws examples from the full range of the Western tradition, including classical, Renaissance, and contemporary art, with special focus on the modern era. It was in the modern period, when arguments about homosexuality and the avant-garde were especially public, that our current conception of the artist and ... Weiterlesen

Moe Meyer: An Archaeology of Posing

Essays on Camp, Drag, and Sexuality. USA 2010, 221pp., brochure, € 28.69
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University of Wisconsin Press
This book compiles two decades of new and previously published writing on gay culture by one of the field's most provocative and outspoken critics. Diverging from the text-based premise of most queer theory, Meyer utilizes performance studies and interpretive anthropology to examine camp and drag performances in the spaces in which they appear. He explores a variety of topics - ... Weiterlesen

Gregg Drinkwater (ed.): Torah Queeries

Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. USA 2010, 337 pp., hardbound, € 27.59
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New York University Press
In the Jewish tradition, reading of the Torah follows a calendar cycle, with a specific portion assigned each week. These weekly portion, read aloud in synagogues around the world, have been subject to interpretation and commentary for centuries. Following on this ancient tradition, this book brings together some of the world's leading rabbis, scholars, and writers to interpret the Torah ... Weiterlesen

Jack Rogers: Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality

Explode the Myths, Heal the Church. USA 2009, 228 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Westminster
In this revised and expanded edition, evangelical theologian and former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church Jack Rogers makes a biblical case for equal rights for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. Throughout history, he observes, Christianity has moved towards ever greater openness and inclusiveness. Today's church is led by many of those who were once excluded: people of ... Weiterlesen