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Transcript Verlag Opacity – Minority – Improvisation – An
Book SynopsisThe expression "to come out of the closet" calls for an analysis of how language and notional as well as social spaces interact and intersect to constitute "queer". This performative book, a product of artistic research, is an exploration of the proverbial closet through linguistics, queer, and postcolonial theory. It is a project in which opacity, minority, and improvisation happen on the levels of content, analysis, and typography. Eleven queer slangs from around the world become part of an exploration of queerness and knowledge from the Periphery through autoethnography, Édouard Glissant's concept of opacity, José Muñoz's disidentifications, and Gloria Anzaldúa's performative writing. Theory, personal accounts, and art are interwoven to offer an interdisciplinary reading of the slangs as queer methods of survival and resistance.
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Transcript Verlag Female Identities in Lesbian Web Series –
Book SynopsisLesbian Web Series narrate female-centred stories, strengthen identity construction, and generate transnational communities beyond cultural barriers. Julia Obermayr explores the first definition of a new format, the first representations of lesbian women in US-American, Canadian, and Spanish web series from 2007 and onward, as well as their reciprocal effects regarding identity construction and community building of their transnational, mainly female, audience.The analyzed corpus comprises scenes taken from Venice the Series (2009) and its backstory "Otalia" on the soap opera Guiding Light (1952-2009), Seeking Simone (2009), Out With Dad (2010), Féminin/ Féminin (2014), Chica Busca Chica (2007) and its cinematic sequel De Chica En Chica (2015), as well as Notas Aparte (2016).Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Questions of Methodology; Lesbian Identities; Lesbian Web Series: The Medium; The Lesbian Code; Approaching Female Identities in Lesbian Web Series within Anglo-, Hispano-, and Francophone Contexts; Effects of Lesbian Web Series on their Audiences; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Table of Figures; References.
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Transcript Publishing Great Queer Provocation
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Intersectionality and LGBTIQ Rights A Comparative
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc. The Pros and Cons of GenderAffirming Care Legal Medical and Policy Perspectives
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Talking to My Angels
Book SynopsisTwenty years after the success of her first memoir, the New York Times bestseller The Truth Is . . ., the Grammy and Oscar award-winning rocker and trailblazing LGBTQAI icon takes stock of the intervening years, recounting the euphoric triumphs and the life-altering tragedies of her life.The audiobook is an exclusive musical experience, read and performed by Melissa. It features live, stripped-down performances of many of Melissa’s songs, including the one that inspired the book title, Talking to My Angel; never-before performed songs including Here Comes the Pain; and original interstitial and credit music. Live with spirit.Find peace in the chaos.Lean into the joy.Over the past twenty years, Melissa Etheridge has been blessed with success, love, joy, contentment, freedom, and release. She became a mother again, recorded eleven albums, toured the world, performed at the Grammy Awards, won an Oscar, discovered her one true love, and underwent a profound spiritual awakening. She also experienced illness, incomparable loss, heartache, guilt, shame, and devastating grief. She was diagnosed with breast cancer, endured two contentious and public break ups, and witnessed the devastating disintegration and death of her son, Beckett, to opioid addiction. Yet through it all, Melissa found the strength and courage to carry on.Talking to My Angels is a profoundly honest look into her inner life as a woman, an artist, a mother, and a survivor. With characteristic wit and courage, Melissa delves into how numerous tragedies served as a catalyst for growth, and what the past two decades have taught her about the value of music, love, family, and life in the face of death. It is her story: as raw, vulnerable, and electrifying as her acclaimed songs. Melissa shares hard truths about surviving and thriving—a journey through darkness and uncertainty that leads to forgiveness and love. A remarkable storyteller, she digs deep into the well of her life, sharing memories that, woven together, create a rich portrait of success and survival—an intimate, emotional and ultimately inspiring story of healing. A memoir a lifetime in the making, Talking to My Angels is Melissa’s engrossing—and at times harrowing—story as she lived it. It is a testament to the power of art, a touchstone for anyone seeking a path out of darkness, and a powerful love letter to the family and fans who’ve been integral to her journey.
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Oxford University Press After Marriage
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays by liberal and feminist philosophers addresses the question of whether marriage reform ought to stop with same-sex marriage. Some philosophers have recently argued that marriage is illiberal and should be abolished or radically reformed to include groups and non-romantic friendships. In response, Simon May argues that marriage law can be justified without an illiberal appeal to an ideal relationship type, and Ralph Wedgwood argues that the liberal values which justify same-sex marriage do not justify further extension. Other authors argue for new legal forms for intimate relationships. Marriage abolitionist Clare Chambers argues that piecemeal directives rather than relationship contracts should replace marriage, and Samantha Brennan and Bill Cameron argue for separating marriage and parenting, with parenting rather than marriage becoming, legally and socially, the foundation of the family. Elizabeth Brake argues for a non-hierarchical friendship model for marriage. Peter de Marneffe argues that polygamy should be decriminalized, but that the liberal state need not recognize it, while Laurie Shrage argues that polygamy could be legally structured to protect privacy and equality. Dan Nolan argues for temporary marriage as a legal option, while Anca Gheaus argues that marital commitments are problematic instruments for securing the good of romantic and sexual love. Taken together, these essays challenge contemporary understandings of marriage and the state''s role in it.Trade Review... every single essay raises crucial questions about marriage. For this reason alone, and, of course, for others, the book is a welcome and valuable addition to the writings on marriage. * Raja Halwani, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Contributors ; Introduction ; Elizabeth Brake ; Chapter 1: Liberal Neutrality and Civil Marriage ; Simon C?bulea May ; Chapter 2: Is Civil Marriage Illiberal? ; Ralph Wedgwood ; Chapter 3: The Limitations of Contract: Regulating Personal Relationships in a Marriage-Free State ; Clare Chambers ; Chapter 4: Is Marriage Bad for Children? Rethinking the Connection between Having Children, Romantic Love, and Marriage ; Samantha Brennan and Bill Cameron ; Chapter 5: Equality and Non-Hierarchy in Marriage: What Do Feminists Really Want? ; Elizabeth Brake ; Chapter 6: Liberty and Polygamy ; Peter de Marneffe ; Chapter 7: Polygamy, Privacy, and Equality ; Laurie Shrage ; Chapter 8: Temporary Marriage ; Daniel Nolan ; Chapter 9: The (Dis)value of Commitment to One's Spouse ; Anca Gheaus ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press, USA Picturing the Closet Male Secrecy and Homosexual Visibility in Britain The Natural History of the Cru
Book SynopsisTo what extent did people think they could identify an ''obvious'' sodomite before the construction of the homosexual as a type of person during the latter part of the nineteenth century? What role did secrecy and denial play in relation to the visual expression of same-sex desire before the term ''the closet'' came into widespread use in the latter part of the twentieth century? And what, therefore, did sodomites/homosexuals/gays/queers look like in Britain in 1700, 1800, 1900 and 2000? Could they be spotted mincing down the street? Or were such as these just the flamboyant few whose presence conveniently drew attention away from the many others who wanted to appear ''normal''? These issues are not peripheral to the struggle of the last several decades for individual self-determination and self-expression. It was this set of cultural constructions that the pioneering writer Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009) attacked in her book Epistemology of the Closet as representing ''the defining structure for gay oppression in this century''. This book represents a visual culture counterpart to Sedgwick''s study and aims, through the use of a series of interdisciplinary case-studies, to explore both the pre-history of the closet since the eighteenth century and its evolution through to the present day. Chapters explore key moments and issues within the British cultural experience and make pioneering use of a wide range of source materials ranging from art to fashion, literature, philosophy, theology, film and archival records.Trade ReviewFar from simply illustrating a pre-existing history of the closet, this fascinating study exploits the potential of visual culture to reveal patterns of expression and obfuscation that exceed the verbal. The result is a compelling argument that the closet pre-existed the articulation of homosexual identity, and offered its own spectacular forms of 'self-fulfillment and expression.' * Christopher Reed, author of Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas *In this wide-ranging, lucid and informative book, Dominic Janes explores the complex visibilities and invisibilities of the male homosexual 'closet' in Britain from the eighteenth century to the present day. His immense range of sources and examples, his nuanced explications, and his sophisticated method will be useful to specialists, and his narrative brio will draw in readers new to the subject. A major achievement in queer cultural history. * Whitney Davis, author of Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond *This is an ambitious and impressively broad study that reminds us of the importance of aesthetics in considerations of same-sex desire in Britain in the modern period. Janes not only traces the history of the closet, noting its eighteenth century origins, but also reminds us that this literal and metaphorical space was more than a site and symbol of oppression. It was also a space of enormous creativity that produced vitally important ideas and images about both male homosociality and subversive queer subjectivities. * Paul Deslandes, author of Oxbridge Men: British Masculinity and the Undergraduate Experience, 1850-1920 *Picturing the Closet offers a compelling and nuanced history of the border zones in which men's desires for each other were signaled and recognized. Dominic Janes's illuminating and wide-ranging assessment of the structuring roles of desire, dissemblance, and disclosure is an important contribution to the study of British visual culture since the eighteenth century. * David J. Getsy, author of Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture *Table of ContentsCh. 1, Introduction: Picturing the Closet ; Part One ; Ch. 2, Hogarth's Panic ; Ch. 3, Burke's Solution ; Ch. 4, The Decorative and the Damned ; Part Two ; Ch. 5, Athletics and Aesthetics ; Ch. 6, Strachey in Earnest ; Ch. 7, Expulsion ; Part Three ; Ch. 8, Criminal Practices ; Ch. 9, The Unliberated ; Ch. 10, After the Outrage ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Forbidden Friendships
Book SynopsisIn 1432, the Office of the Night was created specifically to police sodomy in Florence. Seventy years of denunciations, accusations, interrogations, and sentencings left an extraordinarily detailed record, which Rocke uses to its fullest in this richly documented portrait. He uncovers a culture in which sexual roles were strictly defined by age, with boys under eighteen the ''passive'' participants in sodomy, youths in their twenties the ''active'' participant, and men in their thirties marrying women, their days of sexual frivolity over. This richly documented book paints a fascinating picture of a vibrant time and place and calls into question our modern conceptions of gender and sexual identity.Trade ReviewRocke does a brilliant job of teasing out this wealth of material, and of presenting the complex relationships which underlie the criminal statistics ... this book makes a substantial contribution to the history of homosexuality. * Tim Hitchcock, Urban History *remarkable ... Forbidden Friendships is a study of considerable importance. * Times Literary Supplement *
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Clarendon Press Aeschines Against Timarchos Clarendon Ancient History Series
Book SynopsisThis is a commentary on Aeschines' "Against Timarchos", the prosecution speech in the politically crucial trial of 346/5BC. It is a rhetorical masterpiece of misrepresentation, which persuaded the jury to convict Timarchos despite the fact that Aeschines had virtually no evidence of his misdeeds.Trade ReviewFisher provides an invaluable historical commentary and an extensive introduction, which summarizes much of the recent scholarship on Aeschines and Greek homosexuality ... I highly recommend Fisher's commentary for professional scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates. * Classical World *
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Oxford University Press When Did Indians Become Straight
Book SynopsisWhen Did Indians Become Straight? explores the complex relationship between sexual mores and shifting forms of Native American self-representation. It offers a cultural and literary history that stretches from the early-nineteenth century to the early-twenty-first century, demonstrating how Euramerican and Native writers have drawn on discourses of sexuality in portraying Native peoples and their sovereignty.Trade ReviewWhen did Indians become straight? When we started pretending to be, with and without the help of those who would straighten us. Let's stop pretending or let's get crooked and pretend something better. Let's read Mark Rifkin's book that combines the best of historical inquiry, literary/theoretical analysis, and thinking outside straight lines in ways that confront us with the power of deviant views of familiar, and some unfamiliar, texts and policies. * Craig Womack, author of Drowning in Fire *A fabulously original work! Two of America's leading authorities on Black Language and Culture draw on their expertise and extensive scholarship to profoundly reshape the national conversation on race by languaging it. In complicating compliments about President Obama's "articulateness," they brilliantly analyze his artful use of language and America's response to it as a springboard to consider larger, thought-provoking questions about language, education, power and what Toni Morrison has referred to as "the cruel fallout of racism." Few sociolinguists tackle these complex issues with as much insight, sophistication, and downright directness as Alim and Smitherman. As they firmly conclude, it's time to change the game - and this book does just that. * John R. Rickford, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities at Stanford University, and co-author of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English *In asking 'When did Indians become straight?', Mark Rifkin isn't simply being provocative: he's setting the critical foundation for what is undoubtedly the most incisive, well-researched, respectful, and thoroughly engaging study of sexuality and gender in American Indian literature, and one of the best works of criticism in the field in recent years. * Daniel Heath Justice, Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto *The ideas contained in Rifkin's book are fresh, provocative, and vital to understanding the American past, present and future. * LeftEyeOnBooks.com *When Did Indians Become Straight? is a groundbreaking study of the uses of the native in the making of critical theory and national belonging. * Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Professor of Anthropology & Gender Studies, Columbia University *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION
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Yale University Press A History of Gay Literature
Book SynopsisA full-scale account of male gay literature, across cultures, languages, and from ancient times to the present. It includes chapters on significant periods of cultural history, on major writers, and on common themes.
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SCM Press The Queer Bible Commentary Second Edition
Trade Review"The second edition of this incredible commentary has new voices which add even wider perspectives to a work which originally broke many conventions in its first incarnation. The first edition was published in 2006 and laid the foundations for an explosion of queer hermeneutical works by showing queer folk that they too could comment on biblical texts and that their queer eyes would open the texts to greater understanding and a wider readership, queer and straight. The Bible was no longer seen as a set of texts that were simply condemnatory but rather there was a way to read from experience which brought the texts alive to a diverse range of people. This second edition continues to generate questions about the stability of gender and the correct form of sexuality while it also brings into focus the colonial past of biblical interpretation and moves towards decolonial readings. Each author is placing before us justice seeking and inclusive ways to read the texts and the work is reaching out to global communities in the hope of empowering them to queer texts in their own way. This is a commentary that needs to be in every church, bible believing home and seminary as it is a work of liberation for queer and non-queer alike." -- Prof Lisa Isherwood, University of Wales, Trinity St David"A bumper volume of queerness and biblical commentary! The landmark first edition has been updated, with cutting-edge contributions exploring faith, gender, sexuality, bodies, activism and LGBTQ+ rights. New additions in this second edition bring a fresh outlook to ancient texts, as they are read through contemporary eyes. This volume is the prestigious go-to text for faith groups and academics." -- Chris Greenough, Edge Hill University, UK"This book lives up to its title of being queer—daring, non-binary, and myth-busting. Unveiling heterosexist readings and challenging imperial logic, this book with international contributors broadens our moral and theological imagination. No one will read the Bible the same again after reading this book." -- Kwok Pui-lan, Dean’s Professor of Systematic Theology, Candler School of Theology, Emory University"The Queer Bible Commentary but this extended “second edition” contributes so much more to the lived-out experience of living out the Bible in a queer context. The writers, once again bring to life ancient passages in a context that is relational to our modern understanding and reading. The voices are diverse and offer a perspective that makes this “commentary” an essential addition to anyone’s collection of Biblical thought and theology. While not a “commentary” in the traditional understanding – a verse by verse interpretation, the Queer Bible Commentaries offer so much more, in my opinion. They offer a broader, real experience of a text that is lifted off the page and into the lives of those who preach it, live it, and embody it into their everyday, queer experience. Bravo!" -- The Reverend Dr. Neil G. Thomas, Senior Pastor of the Cathedral of Hope, Dallas"Massive in scale and monumental in significance, QBC has long been the primary resource for queer biblical interpretation and proclamation. Now substantially revised and updated, QBC is yet more valuable even as ever new configurations of queerphobic politics, secular and ecclesial, render it yet more necessary." -- Stephen D. Moore, Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament Studies, the Theological School, Drew University
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