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Thema: Zwischenkriegszeit



Darryl W. Bullock: Queer Blues: The Hidden Figures of Early Blues Music

Darryl W. Bullock: Queer Blues: The Hidden Figures of Early Blues Music

GB 2023, 350 pp., hardbound, € 34.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Omnibus Press
From the very beginning, the blues has had a close connection with the LGBTQ community. There is a long and decorated history of so-called 'dirty blues' songs, stretching back beyond the earliest attempts to capture the blues on record. The 1920s and 30s saw the release of dozens of raunchy, bawdy blues recordings aimed at a knowing LGBTQ audience. Queer ... Weiterlesen

Diana Souhami: No Modernism Without Lesbians

Diana Souhami: No Modernism Without Lesbians

UK 2021, 456 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Head of Zeus
This is the story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place - Paris, between the wars - fostered the birth of the Modernist movement. Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein - a trailblazing publisher, a patron of artists, a society hostess, and a groundbreaking writer - they were all women who loved ... Weiterlesen

Nancy Meckler (R): Sister My Sister

Nancy Meckler (R): Sister My Sister

UK 1994, engl. OF, dt. UT, 90 Min., € 17.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Salzgeber - gay classics (lesbian)
Frankreich 1933. Christine und ihre jüngere Schwester Lea arbeiten als Dienerinnen bei Madame Danzard und ihrer unverheirateten Tochter Isabelle. Die Regeln sind klar verteilt: die Schwestern erledigen wortlos alle Aufgaben, Fehler werden nicht geduldet und frei ist nur der halbe Sonntag. Christine und Lea ertragen alle Demütigungen, weil sie sich auf diese Weise ganz nah sein können. In der Zurückgezogenheit ... Weiterlesen
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Anita Kurimay: Queer Budapest

Anita Kurimay: Queer Budapest

USA 2020, 336 pp., brochure, € 49.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
University of Chicago Press
By the dawn of the 20th century, Budapest was a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis. Known at the time as the »Pearl of the Danube,« it boasted some of Europe's most innovative architectural and cultural achievements, and its growing middle class was committed to advancing the city's liberal politics and making it an intellectual and commercial crossroads between East and West. In ... Weiterlesen

Hugh Ryan: When Brooklyn Was Queer

Hugh Ryan: When Brooklyn Was Queer

USA 2019, 308 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
SMP
»When Brooklyn Was Queer« is an exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the queer women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond. No other book, movie, or exhibition has ever told this sweeping story. Not only has Brooklyn always lived in ... Weiterlesen

Meg Harrington: The Lavender List

Meg Harrington: The Lavender List

D 2016, 249 pp., brochure, € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag
After the Second World War, Amelia Maldonado opts to live a quiet life bussing tables at a diner during the day and going out for auditions at night. The one bright spot is her friendship with the charming Laura Wright, a well-heeled woman with a mysterious war-related past. When Laura shows up outside the diner barely conscious and spitting lousy ... 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

Sarah Waters: The Paying Guests

Sarah Waters: The Paying Guests

USA 2015, 576 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Hachette
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in ... Weiterlesen

Andrea Weiss: Paris Was a Woman

Andrea Weiss: Paris Was a Woman

Portraits from the Left Bank. USA 2013, 256 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Publishers Group West
Originally published more than twenty years ago and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, »Paris Was a Woman« is a rare profile of the female literati in Paris at the turn of the last century. Now with a new preface and illustrations, this »scrapbook« of their work - along with Andrea Weiss' lively commentary - highlights the political, social, and ... Weiterlesen

Annemarie Schwarzenbach: All the Roads Are Open

Annemarie Schwarzenbach: All the Roads Are Open

USA 2011, 140 pp., hardbound, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan's Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by what they considered to be Western neuroses. The Afghan journey documented in »All the Roads Are Open« is one ... Weiterlesen

Mary McCarthy: The Group

Mary McCarthy: The Group

UK 2009, 437 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
»The Group« is a sharply-pointed satire of upper-class New England society which follows the post-college lives of eight Vassar graduates, class of '33. Helena was registered for Vassar at birth. Pokey forged her mother's signature on her college application. Out in the »real« world, Dottie loses her virginity to a »bad sort« but discovers that she enjoys sex, while Kay ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Whitaker (R): Portrait of a Marriage

Stephen Whitaker (R): Portrait of a Marriage

UK 2008, engl.OF, engl.UT, 219 min., € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
BBC
Drama following the scandalous relationship between historian, Harold Nicolson, novelist, Vita Sackville-West, and her lover, Violet Keppel, in post WWI England. Sir Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West appear to have the perfect marriage, but beneath the glossy veneer, Nicolson is a fervent homosexual, constantly away from home, pursuing new conquests. Vita, happy at first to go along with her husband's ... Weiterlesen

Alice Walker: The Color Purple

Alice Walker: The Color Purple

USA 2014 (1st ed. 1982), 264 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
»The Color Purple« is a lesbian classic. With over a million copies sold in the UK alone, it is hailed as one of the all-time 'greats' of literature, inspiring generations of readers. Set in the deep American South between the wars, it is the tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the ... Weiterlesen

Lillian Faderman: Surpassing the Love of Men

Lillian Faderman: Surpassing the Love of Men

Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present. USA 1979, 496 pp., brochure, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Womens Press
A quietly revolutionary book which reconstructs a lost history of women loving women. Here the author explores the different forms which that love has taken over the years, from the elaborate deceptions of Deborah Sampson, soldier of the American Revolution, to the genteel Ladies of Llangollen and the notorious »Boston marriages« of the 19th century. Drawing on a rich variety ... Weiterlesen

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