Larry Gross: Up from Invisibility

USA 2001, 295 pp., brochure, € 25.99
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Half a century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media’s stage. And yet even as the mass media have been shifting the terms of ... 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

José Esteban Munoz: Disidentifications

Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. USA 1999, 227 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 29.95
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University of Minnesota Press
There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Munoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture - not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Munoz calls this process »disidentification«, and through a ... Weiterlesen

Claudia Schoppmann: Verbotene Verhältnisse - Frauenliebe 1938-1945

D 1999, 162 S., Broschur, € 0.00
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Querverlag
Der 1. April 1940 sollte kein guter Tag für Marie W. und Lilly R. werden. Plötzlich steht die Polizei vor ihrer Tür. Die Nachbarn haben sie verpfiffen oder - wie es auf wienerisch heißt - vernadert. Beide werden festgenommen, weil sie »in dringendem Verdachte stehen, widernatürlichen Verkehr gepflogen zu haben«. So steht es in einem Vermerk der Kriminalpolizeileitstelle Wien. Anders ... Weiterlesen
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Molly McGarry, Fred Wasserman: Becoming Visible

USA 1998, 282 pp., hardbound, € 38.66
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The N.Y. Public Library’s groundbreaking 1994 »Becoming Visible« exhibit was the largest and most extensive display of lesbian and gay history ever mounted in a museum or gallery space. Now, two of the curators of the exhibition have expanded upon it, pairing an authoritative text with more than 300 photographs, documents, and artifacts from the Library’s collections as well as ... Weiterlesen

Audre Lorde: The Cancer Journals

USA 1997, 100 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. Includes photos and tributes to Lorde written after her death in 1992. Lorde's poetry was published very regularly during the 1960s — in Langston Hughes' 1962 New Negro Poets, USA, in several ... Weiterlesen

Mark Blasius, Shane Phelan (eds.): We Are Everywhere

USA/UK 1997, 844 pp., brochure, € 98.00
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This historical sourcebook of gay and lesbian politics brings together the key primary sources relating to the politics of homosexuality. Presenting political, historical, legal, literary and psychological documents which trace the evolution of the gay and lesbian movement, this edited volume includes such diverse documents as organization pamphlets, essays, polemics, speeches, newspaper and journal articles, and academic papers – from ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Goldberg (ed.): Queering the Renaissance

USA 1994, 388 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Duke University Press
»Queering the Renaissance« offers a major reassessment of the field of Renaissance studies. Gathering essays by sixteen critics working within the perspective of gay and lesbian studies, this collection redraws the map of sexuality and gender studies in the Renaissance. Taken together, these essays move beyond limiting notions of identity politics by locating historically forms of same-sex desire that are ... Weiterlesen

Ilse Kokula: Formen lesbischer Subkultur

Vergesellschaftung und soziale Bewegung. D 1983, 168 S., Broschur, € 9.95
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Verlag rosa Winkel
In dieser Studie wird die bisher am weitesten entwickelte Form lesbischen Lebens beschrieben und analysiert, wie sie sich offenbar nur in einer Metropole wie Berlin während der 1970er Jahre und vielleicht schon einmal während der 1920er Jahre herausbilden konnte. Die Verfasserin schildert Struktur und Dynamik sozialer Beziehungen lesbischer Frauen in den drei subkulturellen Feldern der Bar, der Clique und der ... Weiterlesen

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
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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

David L. Eng: The Feeling of Kinship

Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy, € 41.99
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The author investigates the emergence of »queer liberalism« - the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the U.S., economically through an increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle, and politically through the legal protection of rights to privacy and intimacy. He argues that in our »colorblind« age the emergence of queer liberalism is a particular incarnation of liberal freedom ... Weiterlesen

Michael Handl, Gudrun Hauer, Kurt Krickler u. a. (: Homosexualität in Österreich

A 1989, 244 S., Broschur, € 27.95
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Selbst schon ein historisches Dokument: Die Aufklärungsschrift der HOSI Wien aus dem Jahr 1989 gibt einen schönen Überblick über die Themen, die auch schon vor Jahrzehnten diskutiert wurden und bis heute nicht erledigt sind.

Martin Duberman: Stonewall

USA 1994, 330 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall, a gay bar in New York’s Greenwich Village, was raided. But instead of the routine compliance expected by the police, patrons and a growing crowd decided to fight back. The 5 days of rioting that ensued changed forever the face of gay and lesbian life. Renowned historian and activist Martin Duberman now tells for ... Weiterlesen