Antke Engel: Bilder von Sexualität und Ökonomie

Queere kulturelle Politiken im Neoliberalismus. D 2008, 254 S., Broschur, € 27.60
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Gibt es einen inneren Zusammenhang zwischen sexuellen Freiheiten und den Freiheiten des Marktes? Ein Indiz dafür ist das verstärkte Auftreten dissidenter Sexualitäten und geschlechtlichet Ambiguitäten in der Werbung. Es entstehen Überlappungsbereiche, die früher überrascht hätten: queere Diskurse in kommerziellen sowie neoliberale Diskurse in queeren visuellen Produkten. Diese Überlappungsbereiche sind zu Schauplätzen kultureller Politiken geworden. Aus einer queeren Perspektive heraus beleuchtet ... Weiterlesen

Janet Malcolm: Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice

USA/UK 2008, 229 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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»How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?« Janet Malcolm askes at the beginning of this literary biography. The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master »whose charm was as conspicuous as her fatness«, and »thin, plain, tense, sour« Alice B. Toklas, the »worker bee« who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their 40 years of ... Weiterlesen

Drew Ferguson: The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie the Second

USA 2008, 263 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Being Charles James Stewart, jr., aka »Charlie the Second«, means never »fitting in«. Tall, gangly and big-eared, he could be a poster boy for teenage geeks. An embarrassment to his parents (he's not too crazy about them, either), Charlie's a virtual untouchable at his high school, where humiliation is practically an extracurricular activity. All his efforts to fit in failed ... Weiterlesen

Robin Reardon: Thinking Straight

USA 2008, 295 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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When Taylor Adams comes out, his parents ship him off to »Straight to God«, a camp for those who have gone astray. The nightmarish camp seeks to exorcise the satanic influence from its charges, some of whom are gay, and some of whom are petty criminals or drug addicts. The camp's strict guidelines include no speaking for newbies (who wear ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: The Flaneur

UK 2008, 214 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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White, who lived in Paris for 16 years, wanders through the avenues and along the quays, into parts of the city virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many locals, luring the reader into the fascinating and seductive backstreets of his personal Paris. The organizing principle is the combined force of White's perception, imagination, frame of reference and voice. He ... Weiterlesen

Gary Zebrun: Only the Lonely

USA 2008, 207 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Asim Zahid is headed to the University of Michigan, ready to bust out of Lackawanna, a rundown steel town outside of Buffalo, New York. But his dream of a bright future is derailed when his father dies and leaves behind two last wishes: to keep open the cherished Bethlehem Theater and to befriend Sonia, the old man's longtime mistress, now ... Weiterlesen

William J. Mann: Men Who Love Men

USA 2008, 330 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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For Jeff O'Brien, life has finally fallen into place. He's now a bestselling author, living in Provincetown full-time with Lloyd Griffith, his longtime lover and soon-to-be legal husband. Forty has nothing on Jeff and Lloyd - they're the still-sexy poster boys for settled, contented domesticity. They seem to have everything, in fact - even a foster son, Jeff's 10-year-old nephew, ... Weiterlesen

Herb Boyd: Baldwin's Harlem

USA 2008, 244 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Although James Baldwin left his native Harlem as a young man and returned only for occasional visits, the New York neighborhood was a recurring theme in his essays and novels. His junior high French teacher may have inspired Baldwin's later Paris sojourn and his first literary efforts, and Baldwin shared a stormy relationship with another Harlem Renaissance progenitor, poet Langston ... Weiterlesen