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Poems Between Women - Four Centuries Of Love, Romantic Friendship, And Desire

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 With poems in English by over one hundred female poets -- American, English, Scottish, Canadian, South African, Indian, Irish, and Australian -- this is an extraordinary collection that pays homage to four centuries of women's desires, friendships, and expressions of love. The collection is testimony to the rich tradition of female verse and the timelessness of love and creativity.
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Up From Invisibility - Lesbians, Gay Men, And The Media In America

by Larry Gross

34,95€ + 10% CARD

 Gross traces the relation of lesbians and gays to the media and astutely points to the latter's lingering inability to embrace the complex reality of gay identity.
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Hear Us Out - Conversations With Gay Novelists

by Richard Canning

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 The author of the acclaimed Gay Fiction Speaks brings us new interviews with twelve prominent gay writers who have emerged in the last decade. Hear Us Out demonstrates how in recent decades the canon of gay fiction has developed, diversified, and expanded its audience into the mainstream.
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On Sexuality And Power

by Alan Sinfield

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 It is widely supposed that the most suitable partner will be someone very much like oneself; gay fiction and cinema are often organized around this assumption. Nonetheless, power differentials are remarkably persistent-as well as sexy.
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Identity Poetics - Race, Class, And The Lesbian-Feminist Roots Of Queer Theory

by Linda Garber

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 Describes the role of lesbian poets as theorists of lesbian identity and activism. This work includes historical writing about the women's and lesbian-feminist movements; discussions of works of Judy Grahn, Pat Parker, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Gloria Anzaldua; and, a chapter on the rise and hegemony of queer theory within lesbigay studies.
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Violet Hour - The Violet Quill And The Making Of Gay Culture

by David Bergman

49,01€ + 10% CARD

 This work offers a testament to the writers who spoke for a generation of gay men in the time between the Stonewall Riots and AIDS.
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Days Of Masquerade - Life Stories Of Lesbian Women During The Third Reich

by Claudia Schoppmann

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 Through a series of interviews Schoppmann presents the life stories of ten lesbians who lived through the Nazi era. This book is a bold reminder of the "forgotten victims" of the Third Reich.
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Public Sex/Gay Space

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 Twelve essays provide a nuanced portrait of why public sexual activity is such an integral part of gay culture. Contributors explore issues such as visibility and secrecy, as well as economic status and social class, and interrogate the historical trajectories through which certain locations come to be favored sites for sexual encounters.
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Between The Body And The Flesh - Performing Sadomasochism

by Lynda Hart

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 Focuses on the ways in which lesbian sadomascochistic sexual practices have been engaged by critics and theorists. The text notes how this much-reviled area of sexuality has emerged as a Rorschach test for diverse communities that are struggling to come to grips with their own sexual anxieties.
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Lesbian Desire In The Lyrics Of Sappho

by Jane Mcintosh Snyder

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 This is the first book to examine Sappho's poetry through the lens of lesbian desire. Snyder provides close readings of the surviving examples of Sappho's poetry, occasionally presenting comparative material from other ancient Greek poets. The original Greek text is included in an appendix.
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Sappho Goes To Law School - Fragments In Lesbian Legal Theory

by Ruthann Robson

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 Drawing on concepts taken from US law and legal theory, postmodernism and queer theory, as well as the author's own experience in the courtroom and classroom, this book examines the complexities of lesbian identity and the often detrimental ways in which legal scholarship approaches lesbianism.
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Up From Invisibility - Lesbians, Gay Men, And The Media In America

by Larry Gross

45,04€ + 10% CARD

 Gross traces the relation of lesbians and gays to the media and astutely points to the latter's lingering inability to embrace the complex reality of gay identity.
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Gay Fiction Speaks - Conversations With Gay Novelists

by Richard Canning

46,36€ + 10% CARD

 A collection of in-depth analytical interviews with twelve of the best-known gay novelists writing in English today, including Armistead Maupin, David Leavitt, Alan Garganus, and others.
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Business, Not Politics - The Making Of The Gay Market

by Katherine Sender

79,49€ + 10% CARD

 In a hard-hitting book that refutes conventional wisdom, Katherine Sender explores the connection between the business of marketing to gay consumers and the politics of gay rights and identity.
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Queer Theory And The Jewish Question

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 This volume maps the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. It explores the modern Jewish and homosexual identities which emerged as traces of each.
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Politics Of Passion - Women''S Sexual Culture In The Afro-Surinamese Diaspora

by Gloria Wekker

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 Centers on an old institution among the Afro-Surinamese working class in which women have multiple sexual relationships with both men and women. These women reject marriage, preferring to create their own families of kin, lovers, and children. Analyzing this phenomenon, known as mati work, this book describes the lives of Afro-Surinamese women.
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The Politics Of Passion - Women'S Sexual Culture In The Afro-Surinamese Diaspora

by Gloria (Professor And Director, Univeristy Of Utrecht) Wekker

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 Centers on an old institution among the Afro-Surinamese working class in which women have multiple sexual relationships with both men and women. These women reject marriage, preferring to create their own families of kin, lovers, and children. Analyzing this phenomenon, known as mati work, this book describes the lives of Afro-Surinamese women.
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Queer Theory And The Jewish Question

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 This volume maps the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. It explores the modern Jewish and homosexual identities which emerged as traces of each.
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The Columbia Anthology Of Gay Literature - Readings From Western Antiquity To The Present Day

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 Here at last is a single volume that reveals the bright thread of gay literature throughout the Western tradition. With hundreds of works by authors ranging from Ovid to James Baldwin, from Plato to Oscar Wilde, The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature presents a wide range of poetry, fiction, essays, and autobiography that depict love, friendship, intimacy, desire, and sex between men.
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The Violet Hour - The Violet Quill And The Making Of Gay Culture

by David Bergman

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 This work offers a testament to the writers who spoke for a generation of gay men in the time between the Stonewall Riots and AIDS.
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En Travesti - Women, Gender Subversion, Opera

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 En Travesti addresses the ways in which opera empowers women by challenging conventional gender hierarchies. Terry Castle, Helene Cixous, Lowell Gallagher and Elizabeth Wood are among the contributors. Includes 20 musical examples.
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Come As You Are - Sexuality And Narrative

by Judith Roof

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 Ranging through films, television, lesbian novels, and narrative theory from Victor/Victoria to Star Trek: The Next Generation, from Barnes's Nightwood to Barthes's The Pleasure of the Text, Judith Roof charts how ideas of narrative and sexuality inform, determine, and reproduce one another. She identifies the paradigmatic lesbian story, its unvarying repetition, and how it might be recast.
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Between Sodom And Eden - A Gay Journey Through Today'S Changing Israel

by Lee Walzer

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 Walzer explores how, within a decade, Israel has evolved from a society that marginalized homosexuals to one that offers some of the most extensive legal protections in the world.
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Willa Cather - Queering America

by Marilee Lindemann

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 An enlightening unpacking of Cather's writings, from her controversial love letters of the 1890s--in which "queer" is employed to denote sexual deviance--to her epic novels, short stories, and critical writings.
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