Joan Roughgarden: Evolution's Rainbow

Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People. USA 2005, 474 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, the author challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. An evolutionary biologist herself, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science, and even Darwin himself. She leads the reader through a discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, amphibians, reptiles, ... Weiterlesen

Didier Eribon: Insult and the Making of the Gay Self

English by Michael Lucey. USA 2004, 448 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Duke University Press
Following its publication in 1999, »Insult and the Making of the Gay Self« became an immediate bestseller in France. It's a set of reflections on »the gay question« by Didier Eribon, one of France's foremost public intellectuals. Known for his biography of Michel Foucault, Eribon is a leading voice in French gay studies. In explorations of gay subjectivity as it ... Weiterlesen

Ara Wilson: The Intimate Economies of Bangkok

USA 2004, 272 pp., brochure, € 22.79
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This portrait of the intertwining of identities, relationships, and economics during Bangkok's boom years uses case studies of women's and men's participation in a range of modern markets - department stores, go-go bars etc - the author chronicles the expansion of capitalist exchange into further reaches of Thai society. She shows how global economies have interacted with local systems to ... Weiterlesen

Rolf Pohl: Feindbild Frau

D 2004, 553 S., geb., € 35.77
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Sexuelle Gewalt geht von Männern aus. Ihr liegen ambivalente, mitunter feindliche Einstellungen gegenüber Frauen zugrunde. Diese Tendenz ist für Männer in allen männlich dominierten Gesellschaften mit Zwangsheterosexualität typisch. Weiblichkeit und Frauen werden von Männern unterbewusst als Bedrohung empfunden und deshalb (insbesondere auch für sich selbst) abgewehrt. Herkömmliche Erklärungsansätze, wonach sexuelle Gewalt Ausdruck männlicher Macht seien, greifen zu kurz. Der Autor ... Weiterlesen

William Naphy: Born to Be Gay

UK 2004, 288 pp., hardback, € 29.95
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This global history of the lives of gay men and lesbian women from the earliest civilizations to the present day takes us on a radical journey from Bacchanalian orgies to Gay Pride and shows that homosexuality has always been present in society. This book dramatically highlights the positive attitudes of bygone generations and cultures, as opposed to 19th-century views of ... Weiterlesen

Michele Aaron (ed.): New Queer Cinema

USA 2004, 204 pp., brochure, € 27.49
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Coined in the early 1990s to describe a burgeoning film movement, this book has turned the attention of film theorists, students, and audiences, to the proliferation of intellligent and stylish work by gay and lesbian filmmakers within the independent cinema and the proliferation of »queer« images and themes within the mainstream. Why did this transition take place? Was it political ... 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

Harry Benshoff, Sean Griffin (eds.): Queer Cinema - The Film Reader

USA/CAN/UK 2004, 242 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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»Queer Cinema« brings together key writings that use queer theory to explore cinematic sexualities. The collection examines the relationship between cinematic representations of sexuality and their social, historical, and industrial contexts. »Auteurs« examines the ways in which sexuality figures in the work of queer filmmakers. »Forms« explores how the horror film, the musical, film noir, and the animated film construct ... Weiterlesen

Pamela Gibson (ed.): More Dirty Looks

UK 2004, 264 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Hailed as »a paradigm shift in feminist responses to pornography« when first published in 1993, »Dirty Looks« was instantly lauded as a landmark volume. This new edition adds to the core of the original selection new accounts of recent transformations in the politics and presentation of porn. The authors argue for the significance of porn in debates around gender, feminism, ... Weiterlesen

Miriam Lang (Hg.): Salsa Cubana - Tanz der Geschlechter

D 2004, 143 S., Broschur, € 12.34
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Das Bild vom Leben auf Kuba unter Castro wird nach außen hin stark von Klischees geprägt. Die Autorinnen in diesem Buch versuchen, die wirkliche Situation der Frauen und Männer auf der Karibikinsel wiederzugeben. So erfährt der Leser, dass es auf der Insel sehr wohl Sextourismus gibt. Auch wird deutlich, wie es um die Emanzipation der Frauen bestellt ist, die ja ... Weiterlesen

Joanne Meyerwitz: How Sex Changed

USA 2004, 363 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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The author tells you all you need to know about the social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the USA. It's the human story about people who have a deep and unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. Over the past century, when many challenged the social categories and hierarchies of race, class, and gender, transsexuals questioned biological sex ... Weiterlesen

Daniel Boyarin / Daniel Itzkovitz (eds.): Queer Theory and the Jewish Question

USA 2003, 464 pp., brochure, € 69.95
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Columbia University Press
The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler, Daniel Boyarin, Marjorie Garber, Michael Moon, and Eve Sedgwick, this book is not so much interested in revealing ... Weiterlesen

Sharon Farmer and Carol B. Pasternack (eds.): Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages

USA 2003, 354 pp., brochure, € 44.95
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University of Minnesota Press
Nothing less than a rethinking of what we mean when we talk about »men« and »women« of the medieval period, this volume demonstrates how the idea of gender - in the Middle Ages no less than now - intersected in subtle and complex ways with other categories of difference. Responding to the insights of postcolonial and feminist theory, the authors ... Weiterlesen

Dana Rosenfeld: The Changing of the Guard

USA 2003, 250 pp., brochure, € 24.20
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One of the first books to link identity, age, and gender, »The Changing of the Guard« offers a significant meditation on the politics of older lesbians and gays. Combining interviews and sustained critical thought, Rosenfeld links the development of lesbian and gay elders' identity with the key moments in the 20th century reinvention of homosexuality. In doing so, she bridges ... Weiterlesen

Nikki Sullivan: A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory

USA 2003, 232 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Nikki Sullivan explores the ways in which sexuality, subjectivity, and sociality have been discursively produced in various historical and cultural contexts. The book begins by putting gay and lesbian sexuality and politics in historical context and demonstrates how, and why, queer theory emerged in the West in the late 20th century. It goes on to provide a detailed overview of ... Weiterlesen