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The University of Chicago Press Freaks Talk Back Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual
Book SynopsisAre talk shows turning everything they touch into freak shows? This book claims that the socially deviant may be featured on-air for ridicule in the public eye, but the result is empowerment through exploitation. The book illuminates the dilemmas and practicalities of media visibility.
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The University of Chicago Press The Constitutional Underclass Gays Lesbians and
Book SynopsisUsing Colorado's initiative with Amendment 2 as its focus, this text seeks to untangle the complex standards and subtle rhetoric the Supreme Court uses to apply the equal protection clause. It reveals how these standards are used to favour certain groups over others.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press The Dividends of Dissent How Conflict and
Book SynopsisBetween 1979 and 2000 four major lesbian and gay demonstrations took place there. Drawing on archival research, historical data, original photographs, interviews with key activists, and more than a thousand news articles, this book offers an analysis - descriptive, historical, and sociological - of these marches and their organization.Trade Review"A dazzling accomplishment, both conceptually and substantively. Ghaziani's rich and meticulously researched work significantly expands our understanding of the history of gay and lesbian activism during a critical period. Using these four previously unstudied cases of mass protest as a means to tell that history is a brilliant idea." - Verta Taylor, University of California, Santa Barbara"
£84.00
The University of Chicago Press The Dividends of Dissent How Conflict and Culture
Book SynopsisBetween 1979 and 2000 four major lesbian and gay demonstrations took place there. Drawing on archival research, historical data, original photographs, interviews with key activists, and more than a thousand news articles, this book offers an analysis - descriptive, historical, and sociological - of these marches and their organization.Trade Review"A dazzling accomplishment, both conceptually and substantively. Ghaziani's rich and meticulously researched work significantly expands our understanding of the history of gay and lesbian activism during a critical period. Using these four previously unstudied cases of mass protest as a means to tell that history is a brilliant idea." - Verta Taylor, University of California, Santa Barbara"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Tourist Attractions
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The University of Chicago Press How to Do the History of Homosexuality
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The University of Chicago Press Sex Museums The Politics and Performance of Display
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The University of Chicago Press Sexuality and Form
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging study of sexuality, aesthetics, and epistemology covers everything from the aesthetics of war to the works of Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Christopher Marlowe, and Francis Bacon, synthesizing queer theory and psycholanalysis.Trade Review"Hammill's ability to connect the dots of various disciplines to make a big cultural picture is nothing short of brilliant.... Original, daring, disturbing, polemical and persuasive. It stands head and shoulders above almost all, if not all, books on sex and violence (and outsiderness and cultural impact)." - Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance "Breathtaking, substantial, and original.... Hammill's use of humanist, Biblical, and psychoanalytic paradigms and micro-histories to intervene in current cultural studies of homosexuality and 'sexed thinking' is much needed. Readers will leave this book convinced that the flesh cannot be thought of outside a psychoanalytic register." - Julia Lupton, author of Afterlives of the Saints
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The University of Chicago Press Sex Museums The Politics and Performance of
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The University of Chicago Press Guardians of the Flutes Volume 1 Idioms of
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsA Note on Language Foreword Robert A. LeVine Preface to the 1994 edition Preface Introduction 1: People of the Mountain Forest 2: Idioms and Verbal Behavior 3: The Inward Cosmos 4: Genderizing the Pandanus Tree 5: The Phantom Cassowary 6: Femininity 7: Masculinity 8: Male Parthenogenesis: A Myth and Its Meaning 9: Conclusion Appendix A: "Tali Says": On the problem of symbolic meaning and its relationship to field conditions among the Sambia Appendix B: Nilutwo's Dreams Appendix C: The Myth of Cassowary Appendix D: On the Origins of Warfare and Initiation Appendix E: The Myth of Gandei References Name Index Subject Index
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The University of Chicago Press Oscar Wilde Prefigured Queer Fashioning and
Book SynopsisI do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad, Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom which erupted in laughter accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. What was so terrible about posing as a sodomite, and why was Queensbury's horror greeted with such amusement? In Oscar Wilde Prefigured, Dominic Janes suggests that what divided the two sides in this case was not so much the question of whether Wilde was or was not a sodomite, but whether or not it mattered that people could appear to be sodomites. For many, intimations of sodomy were simply a part of the amusing spectacle of sophisticated life.Oscar Wilde Prefigured is a study of the prehistory of this queer moment in 1895. Janes explores the complex ways in which men who desired sex with men in Britain had expressed such interests through clothing, style, and deportment since the mid-eighteenth century. He supplements the well-established narrative of the inscription of sodomitic
£33.25
The University of Chicago Press Boystown Sex and Community in Chicago Emersion
Book SynopsisFrom neighborhoods as large as Chelsea or the Castro, to locales limited to a single club, like The Shamrock in Madison or Sidewinders in Albuquerque, gay areas are becoming normal. Straight people flood in. Gay people flee out. Scholars call this transformation assimilation and some argue that we gay and straight alike are becoming post gay. Jason Orne argues that rather than post gay, America is becoming post queer, losing the radical lessons of sex. In Boystown, Orne takes readers on a detailed, lively journey through Chicago's Boystown, which serves as a model for gayborhoods around the country. The neighborhood, he argues, has become an entertainment district a gay Disneyland where people get lost in the magic of the night and where straight white women can go on safari. In their original form, though, gayborhoods like this one don't celebrate differences; they create them. By fostering a space outside the mainstream, gay spaces allow people to develop an alternative culture a queer culture that celebrates sex. Orne spent three years doing fieldwork in Boystown, searching for ways to ask new questions about the connective power of sex and about what it means to be not just gay, but queer. The result is the striking Boystown, illustrated throughout with street photography by Dylan Stuckey. In the dark backrooms of raunchy clubs where bachelorettes wouldn't dare tread, people are hooking up and forging naked intimacy. Orne is your tour guide to the real Boystown, then, where sex functions as a vital center and an antidote to assimilation.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press The Gay Rights Question in Contemporary American
Book SynopsisIn this work Andrew Koppelman shows the powerful legal and moral case for gay equality, but argues that the courts cannot and should not impose it. The author places his case in a broad moral and social context, offering original, pragmatic and workable legal solutions.Trade Review"The Gay Rights Question challenges American law to treat gay people the same as heterosexuals - and does so straight out of existing constitutional doctrine. Koppelman's arguments cannot be ignored by any official or person who must consider gay rights claims." - William N. Eskridge Jr., Yale Law School
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Kalis Child The Mystical and the Erotic in the
Book SynopsisHow can Ramakrishna's saintly status be reconciled with his eroticized language and actions? This book argues that the key to understanding him lies in Tantra and its equation of the mystical and the erotic, and that his homosexulity is linked to every aspect of his life and teachings.
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press The Boswell Thesis
Book SynopsisBrings together fifteen leading scholars at the intersection of religious and sexuality studies to comment on this book's immense impact, the endless debates it generated, and the many contributions it has made to our culture. This book also includes discussions of John Boswell's career, including his influence among gay and lesbian Christians.
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The University of Chicago Press Gay Fatherhood
Book SynopsisChronicles the lives of gay men, exploring how they cope with political attacks from both the 'family values' right and the 'radical queer' left - while also shedding light on the evolving meanings of family in twenty-first-century America.Trade Review"Gay Fatherhood is doubly a magnificent achievement: it not only offers an exemplary investigation into the lived experience of gay parenting, but also shows how the struggles and triumphs of these gay men and their children can act as a kind of lens into how American cultures more broadly understand family, love, responsibility, and belonging." - Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Queer Forster Worlds of Desire
Book SynopsisA radical revision of gay criticism, focusing on E.M. Forster's place in the emerging field of queer studies. This collection of essays situates Forster within the Bloomsbury Group, and examines his relations with major figures such as Henry James, Edward Carpenter and Virginia Woolf.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations 1: Introduction: Queer, Forster? Robert K. Martin, George Piggford. 2: "Queer Superstitions": Forster, Carpenter, and the Illusion of (Sexual) Identity Gregory W. Bredbeck 3: "Thinking about Homosex" in Forster and James Eric Haralson 4: The Mouse That Roared: Creating a Queer Forster Christopher Reed 5: Camp Sites: Forster and the Biographies of Queer Bloomsbury George Piggford 6: Fratrum Societati: Forster's Apostolic Dedications Joseph Bristow 7: "This is the End of Parsival": The Orphic and the Operatic in The Longest Journey Judith Scherer Herz 8: Breaking the Engagement with Philosophy Re-envisioning Hetero/Homo Relations in Maurice Debrah Raschke 9: Betrayal and Its Consolations in Maurice, "Arthur Snatchfold," and "What Does It Matter? A Morality" Christopher Lane 10: "Contrary to the Prevailing Current"? Homoeroticism and the Voice of Maternal Law in "The Other Boat" Tamera Dorland 11: To Express the Subject of Friendship: Masculine Desire and Colonialism in A Passage to India Charu Malik 12: Colonial Queer Something Yonatan Touval 13: "It Must Have Been the Umbrella": Forster's Queer Begetting Robert K. Martin Works Cited Contributors Index of Forster's Works General Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Queer Forster Worlds of Desire The Chicago Series
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a revision of gay criticism and focuses on E.M. Forster's place in the emerging field of queer studies.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Equality for SameSex Couples
Book SynopsisDuring the past three decades nations all over the world have been debating whether to allow same-sex couples to marry, or at least grant them the rights associated with marriage. This work presents a comparative study and survey of the status of same-sex couples in Europe.Trade Review"Equality for Same-Sex Couples is well researched and argued. Merin grapples with a legal issue that is being raised more and more frequently in jurisdictions around the world. This book will meet a growing demand among lawyers and policy makers for more information and analysis relating to same-sex partnerships." - Robert Wintemute, editor of Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships
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The University of Chicago Press God Sex and Politics Homosexuality and Everyday
Book Synopsis'God, Sex, and Politics' examines both sides of the church controversy over homosexuality to consider the ways in which people develop, in everyday thought and interaction, their beliefs about God and justice.
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The University of Chicago Press The Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward
Book SynopsisUnpublished autobiography of gay writing pioneer Samuel Steward.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Same Sex Different Politics Success and Failure
Book SynopsisExplains why gay rights advocates have achieved dramatically different levels of success from one policy area to another. This book compares results across a wide range of gay rights struggles. It explores debates over laws governing military service, homosexual conduct, adoption, marriage and partner recognition, hate crimes, and civil rights.Trade Review"Same Sex, Different Politics is a rigorous and well-written analysis of the contemporary lesbian and gay movements in light of the intersection of public opinion, policy, and political institutions. Most impressive of all is Gary Mucciaroni's ability to connect his precise analyses with an engaging set of practical recommendations for policy and political organizing. There is nothing else like this book." - Craig A. Rimmerman, coeditor of The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Same Sex Different Politics Success and Failure
Book SynopsisExplains why gay rights advocates have achieved dramatically different levels of success from one policy area to another. This book compares results across a wide range of gay rights struggles. It explores debates over laws governing military service, homosexual conduct, adoption, marriage and partner recognition, hate crimes, and civil rights.Trade Review"Same Sex, Different Politics is a rigorous and well-written analysis of the contemporary lesbian and gay movements in light of the intersection of public opinion, policy, and political institutions. Most impressive of all is Gary Mucciaroni's ability to connect his precise analyses with an engaging set of practical recommendations for policy and political organizing. There is nothing else like this book." - Craig A. Rimmerman, coeditor of The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Invisible Lives
Book SynopsisThrough combined theoretical and empirical study, this work argues that transgendered people are not so much produced by medicine or psychiatry as they are erased, or made invisible, in a variety of institutional and cultural settings.
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The University of Chicago Press The Mourning After
Book SynopsisOn the battlefields of World War II, with their fellow soldiers as the only shield between life and death, a generation of American men found themselves connecting with each other in new and profound ways. Back home after the war, however, these intimacies faced both scorn and vicious homophobia. The Mourning After makes sense of this cruel irony, telling the story of the unmeasured toll exacted upon generations of male friendships. John Ibson draws evidence from the contrasting views of male closeness depicted in WWII-era fiction by Gore Vidal and John Horne Burns, as well as from such wide-ranging sources as psychiatry texts, child development books, the memoirs of veterans' children, and a slew of vernacular snapshots of happy male couples. In this sweeping reinterpretation of the postwar years, Ibson argues that a prolonged mourning for tenderness lost lay at the core of midcentury American masculinity, leaving far too many men with an unspoken ache that continued long after the fighting stopped, forever damaging their relationships with their wives, their children, and each other.
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The University of Chicago Press Mobile Orientations
Book SynopsisDespite continued public and legislative concern about sex trafficking across international borders, the actual lives of the individuals involvedand, more importantly, the decisions that led them to sex workare too often overlooked. With Mobile Orientations, Nicola Mai shows that, far from being victims of a system beyond their control, many contemporary sex workers choose their profession as a means to forge a path toward fulfillment. Using a bold blend of personal narrative and autoethnography, Mai provides intimate portrayals of sex workers from sites including the Balkans, the Maghreb, and West Africa who decided to sell sex as the means to achieve a better life. Mai explores the contrast between how migrants understand themselves and their work and how humanitarian and governmental agencies conceal their stories, often unwittingly, by addressing them all as helpless victims. The culmination of two decades of research, Mobile Orientations sheds new light on the desires and ambit
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The University of Chicago Press Cruising the Dead River David Wojnarowicz and
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The University of Chicago Press Someone The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities
Book SynopsisImagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was bound to misfire, to efface the truth of that ineluctable something? In Someone, Michael Lucey considers characters from twentieth-century French literary texts whose sexual forms prove difficult to conceptualize or represent. The characters expressing these misfit sexualities gravitate towards same-sex encounters. Yet they differ in subtle but crucial ways from mainstream gay or lesbian identities--whether because of a discordance between gender identity and sexuality, practices specific to a certain place and time, or the fleetingness or non-exclusivity of desire. Investigating works by Simone de Beauvoir, Colette, Jean Genet, and others, Lucey probes both the range of same-sex sexual forms in twentieth-century France and the innovative literary language authors have used to explore these evanescent forms. As a portrait of fragile sexuaTrade Review"Michael Lucey is far and away the best critic of modern French literature writing today. Someone is a riveting analysis, through Bourdieu, of the relation between sexuality, writing, and the social world. In attentive, rigorously contextualized, and casually assured readings, Lucey invites us to return to Colette, Genet, and Simone de Beauvoir, to Duras, Leduc, and Guibert, and to know them again, as if for the first time."--Emma Wilson, University of Cambridge "Simply spectacular. Lucey proposes a whole new way of problematizing sexual identity and upends in the process many conceptual frameworks that hold sway over contemporary scholarship. His constant, generous attention to the peculiar, the odd, the idiosyncratic that goes hand in hand with the realities of sexual desire makes his work uniquely humane, ethical even. Someone is an outstanding accomplishment."--David Caron, author of The Nearness of Others: Searching for Tact and Contact in the Age of HIV
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Someone The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities from
Book SynopsisImagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was bound to misfire, to efface the truth of that ineluctable something? In Someone, Michael Lucey considers characters from twentieth-century French literary texts whose sexual forms prove difficult to conceptualize or represent. The characters expressing these misfit sexualities gravitate towards same-sex encounters. Yet they differ in subtle but crucial ways from mainstream gay or lesbian identities--whether because of a discordance between gender identity and sexuality, practices specific to a certain place and time, or the fleetingness or non-exclusivity of desire. Investigating works by Simone de Beauvoir, Colette, Jean Genet, and others, Lucey probes both the range of same-sex sexual forms in twentieth-century France and the innovative literary language authors have used to explore these evanescent forms. As a portrait of fragile sexuaTrade Review"Michael Lucey is far and away the best critic of modern French literature writing today. Someone is a riveting analysis, through Bourdieu, of the relation between sexuality, writing, and the social world. In attentive, rigorously contextualized, and casually assured readings, Lucey invites us to return to Colette, Genet, and Simone de Beauvoir, to Duras, Leduc, and Guibert, and to know them again, as if for the first time."--Emma Wilson, University of Cambridge "Simply spectacular. Lucey proposes a whole new way of problematizing sexual identity and upends in the process many conceptual frameworks that hold sway over contemporary scholarship. His constant, generous attention to the peculiar, the odd, the idiosyncratic that goes hand in hand with the realities of sexual desire makes his work uniquely humane, ethical even. Someone is an outstanding accomplishment."--David Caron, author of The Nearness of Others: Searching for Tact and Contact in the Age of HIV
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The University of Chicago Press Queer Budapest 18731961
Book SynopsisBy the dawn of the twentieth century, Budapest was a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis. Known at the time as the Pearl of the Danube, it boasted some of Europe's most innovative architectural and cultural achievements, and its growing middle class was committed to advancing the city's liberal politics and making it an intellectual and commercial crossroads between East and West. In addition, as historian Anita Kurimay reveals, fin-de-siecle Budapest was also famous for its boisterous public sexual culture, including a robust gay subculture. Queer Budapest is the riveting story of non-normative sexualities in Hungary as they were understood, experienced, and policed between the birth of the capital as a unified metropolis in 1873 and the decriminalization of male homosexual acts in 1961. Kurimay explores how and why a series of illiberal Hungarian regimes came to tolerate, protect, and contain queer life. She also explains how the precarious coexistence between the illiberal state Trade Review"There is much to comment about this study: it provides nuanced analysis of discourses on and legal treatment of homosexuality and paints a vivid and empathetic portrait of queer life in Budapest across nearly a century. Moreover, it is a significant contribution to histories of urban modernity, women and gender, socialism, and conservatism in Hungary, the East Central European Region, and Europe. In addition to Queer Budapest's scholarly contributions, Kurimay's reflections on methodology and the challenges of researching sexuality in general and in Hungary specifically are invaluable for students and scholars planning to undertake historical research on sexuality. But perhaps most importantly, Kurimay provides a vital refutation of the claim that queer life has no history in Hungary." * Canadian Journal of History *“Anita Kurimay’s book is important not only as an amazing critical history of a rich array of sources on same-sex sexuality in Hungary from the late nineteenth century to the decriminalization of homosexuality in 1961, but also as a challenging response to widespread beliefs that often form the basis for attacks against the LGBT+ community in Hungary.” * Hungarian Cultural Studies *“With its rich readings of cultural, medical, and police records, Queer Budapest makes a major contribution to our understanding of modern queer European history. Kurimay’s vivid exploration of how political regimes of twentieth-century Hungary conceived of the queer in their midst illuminates the tangled relationship between politics and sexuality.” * Dan Healey, University of Oxford *“Filled with riveting subplots—from rural servants’ interpretations of aristocratic lesbianism to the brutal eugenic fantasies of Arrow Cross fascism—Kurimay’s book traces the paradoxical twists and turns in Hungarian authorities’ handling of homosexuality. Queer Budapest felicitously and brilliantly scrambles all our usual assumptions about the relationships between sexual and other kinds of politics.” * Dagmar Herzog, author of Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes *"From Kurimay's pen, a title as simple as an adjective, a place name and a range of dates is also a manifesto, insisting on a continued queer presence that defies far-right visions of the Hungarian past." * Europe-Asia Studies *"Anita Kurimay’s brilliant and innovative Queer Budapest, 1873–1961 is an important contribution to the new body of work on the history of sexuality in East Central Europe. . . She shows that throughout the twentieth century consecutive Hungarian regimes were generally silent about homosexuality, which, on the one hand, gave queers a certain degree of freedom (so they could lead their lives unnoticed) but, on the other, erased them from history. . . In this context, reinstalling queers in Hungarian history is a political act meant to combat homophobia and oppression." * Hungarian Studies Review *"Queer Budapest is an important book that paints a complicated picture of the tensions between sexual repression and liberation throughout the twentieth century in Hungary as well as in Central and Eastern Europe." * Austrian History Yearbook *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Sexual Politics in the “Pearl of the Danube” 1. Registering Sex in Sinful Budapest 2. The “Knights of Sick Love”: The Queers of Kornél Tábori and Vladimir Székely 3. Rehabilitating “Sexual Abnormals” in the Hungarian Soviet Republic 4. Peepholes and “Sprouts”: A Lesbian Scandal 5. Unlikely Allies: Queer Men and Horthy Conservatives 6. The End of a Precarious Coexistence: The Prosecution of Homosexuals Epilogue. Queers and Democracy: The Misremembering of the Queer Past Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£84.00
The University of Chicago Press Queer Budapest 18731961
Book SynopsisTrade Review"There is much to comment about this study: it provides nuanced analysis of discourses on and legal treatment of homosexuality and paints a vivid and empathetic portrait of queer life in Budapest across nearly a century. Moreover, it is a significant contribution to histories of urban modernity, women and gender, socialism, and conservatism in Hungary, the East Central European Region, and Europe. In addition to Queer Budapest's scholarly contributions, Kurimay's reflections on methodology and the challenges of researching sexuality in general and in Hungary specifically are invaluable for students and scholars planning to undertake historical research on sexuality. But perhaps most importantly, Kurimay provides a vital refutation of the claim that queer life has no history in Hungary." * Canadian Journal of History *“Anita Kurimay’s book is important not only as an amazing critical history of a rich array of sources on same-sex sexuality in Hungary from the late nineteenth century to the decriminalization of homosexuality in 1961, but also as a challenging response to widespread beliefs that often form the basis for attacks against the LGBT+ community in Hungary.” * Hungarian Cultural Studies *“With its rich readings of cultural, medical, and police records, Queer Budapest makes a major contribution to our understanding of modern queer European history. Kurimay’s vivid exploration of how political regimes of twentieth-century Hungary conceived of the queer in their midst illuminates the tangled relationship between politics and sexuality.” * Dan Healey, University of Oxford *“Filled with riveting subplots—from rural servants’ interpretations of aristocratic lesbianism to the brutal eugenic fantasies of Arrow Cross fascism—Kurimay’s book traces the paradoxical twists and turns in Hungarian authorities’ handling of homosexuality. Queer Budapest felicitously and brilliantly scrambles all our usual assumptions about the relationships between sexual and other kinds of politics.” * Dagmar Herzog, author of Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes *"From Kurimay's pen, a title as simple as an adjective, a place name and a range of dates is also a manifesto, insisting on a continued queer presence that defies far-right visions of the Hungarian past." * Europe-Asia Studies *"Anita Kurimay’s brilliant and innovative Queer Budapest, 1873–1961 is an important contribution to the new body of work on the history of sexuality in East Central Europe. . . She shows that throughout the twentieth century consecutive Hungarian regimes were generally silent about homosexuality, which, on the one hand, gave queers a certain degree of freedom (so they could lead their lives unnoticed) but, on the other, erased them from history. . . In this context, reinstalling queers in Hungarian history is a political act meant to combat homophobia and oppression." * Hungarian Studies Review *"Queer Budapest is an important book that paints a complicated picture of the tensions between sexual repression and liberation throughout the twentieth century in Hungary as well as in Central and Eastern Europe." * Austrian History Yearbook *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Sexual Politics in the “Pearl of the Danube” 1. Registering Sex in Sinful Budapest 2. The “Knights of Sick Love”: The Queers of Kornél Tábori and Vladimir Székely 3. Rehabilitating “Sexual Abnormals” in the Hungarian Soviet Republic 4. Peepholes and “Sprouts”: A Lesbian Scandal 5. Unlikely Allies: Queer Men and Horthy Conservatives 6. The End of a Precarious Coexistence: The Prosecution of Homosexuals Epilogue. Queers and Democracy: The Misremembering of the Queer Past Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Women Gays and the Constitution The Grounds for
Book SynopsisAn interpretive history of culture and law, political philosophy and constitutional analysis, explaining the background, development and growing impact of two challenging human rights movements: feminism and gay rights. This text argues that both movements are extensions of rights-based dissent.
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The University of Chicago Press Identity and the Case for Gay Rights Race Gender
Book SynopsisExamines the case for the legal recognition of gay rights as basic human rights. This work explores the connections between gay rights and three rights movements - black civil rights, feminism and religious toleration - to determine how these might serve as analogies for the gay rights movement.
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press The Politics of Gay Rights The Chicago Series on
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of essays from scholars and activists writing from a number of different perspectives providing a comprehensive overview of civil rights for lesbians and gays. They also address the strategies and ideology of opposition groups and focus on issues for public policy.
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The University of Chicago Press The Politics of SameSex Marriage Emersion
Book SynopsisSame-sex marriage emerged in 2004 as one of the hottest issues of the campaign season. This work explores various facets of this issue, including the ideologies and strategies on both sides of the argument, the public's response, and how same-sex marriage fits into the context of policy cycles and windows of political opportunity.Trade Review"This original and wide-ranging volume collects all of the current mainstream scholarship by some of the finest minds in political science on the topic of same-sex marriage. Its broad scope and emphasis on public opinion and political processes should appeal to scholars of various disciplines interested in the issue of same-sex marriage and American politics." - Kenneth Sherrill, Hunter College, City University of New York"
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Queer Wars
Book SynopsisFrom the 1969 rebellion at Stonewall to battles over same-sex marriage, gay liberation in the United States was closely associated with the political left. This book offers the first extended consideration of gay conservatism and the trenchant critics who espouse its positions. It is for anyone interested in gay culture and contemporary politics.Trade Review"This lucid analysis of conservative gay politics equally illuminates the positions of its left and liberal critics. Queer Wars is a most useful introduction to debates about the politics of sexuality in America today." - Jonathan Ned Katz, author of Love Stories "Nowadays it has become a rare pleasure to read a book on queer issues such as this one, written in clear, spirited and effective English, informed and insightful, and which, despite incisive criticism of its subject, manages to remain honest and fair." - R. A. Horne, Lambda Book Report"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Vice Patrol
Book SynopsisIn the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor investigators infiltrated and shut down gay-friendly bars. Plainclothes decoys enticed men in parks and clubs. Vice officers surveilled public bathrooms through peepholes and two-way mirrors. In Vice Patrol, Anna Lvovsky chronicles this painful story, tracing the tactics used to criminalize, profile, and suppress gay life from the 1930s through the 1960s, and the surprising controversies those tactics often inspired in court. Lvovsky shows that the vice squads' campaigns stood at the center of live debates about not only the law's treatment of queer people, but also the limits of ethical policing, the authority of experts, and the nature of sexual difference itselfdebates that had often unexpected effects on the gay community's rights and freedoms. Examining those battles, Vice Patrol enriches understandings of the regulation of queer life Trade Review"Lvovsky has written an important history of antigay policing in the US between 1930 and 1970. . . . Lvovsky dives into municipal archives, court records, and psychological literature to interrogate queer tropes, taking care to guide readers through this narrative. . . . Lvovsky deftly handles these topics with nuance and compassion. Those studying law, history, gender and sexuality, and political science will benefit from her work in terms of understanding queer life in the 20th century, the professionalization of policing, and how the two intersected to shape (mis)understandings about the other. This is a necessary title for all libraries at all levels. . . . Essential." * Choice *"Anna Lvovsky’s Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall offers an exciting, novel contribution to the fast-growing field of police history in the United States. . . . Vice Patrol reshapes our understanding of the state’s regulation of gay life, and it complicates long-held assumptions about the relationship between police knowledge and police power." * American Journal of Legal History *"With precise details and careful analysis, Vice Patrol tells a fascinating story about how the policing of homosexuality from the 1940s to the 1960s was far more contradictory and contested than we might think, and how courts of law played a crucial role in the emerging understanding and visibility of LGBT life." * The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide *"In Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle Over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall, Anna Lvovsky examines with both precision and breadth a time period during which litigants in queer society encountered considerably greater difficulty in the justice system... This important book casts new light on the legal intricacies and political realities of anti-gay legislation several generations before courts began looking with disfavor on laws stigmatizing or even criminalizing members of the queer community." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"Lvovsky chronicles the tactics used to criminalize, profile, and suppress gay life in the US from the1930s through the 1960s, and the surprising controversies those tactics often inspired in court. She finds that the vice squads’ campaigns stood at the center of debates about not only the law’s treatment of queer people, but also the limits of ethical policing, the authority of experts, and the nature of sexual difference itself—debates that had often unexpected effects on the LGBTQ community’s civil liberties, and that continue to be relevant today." * Law & Social Inquiry *"In her stunning new book, Vice Patrol, Anna Lvovsky argues that, in the United States, the criminal justice system was disjointed on the subject of homosexuality and how it should be policed. . . In an elegantly written examination of state liquor boards, courts and police, Lvovsky demonstrates that individual agents and agencies of the criminal justice system, alongside same-sex desiring people and ‘experts’, shaped and reshaped the public and legal concept of the ‘homosexual.'" * Journal of Urban History *"In this sophisticated and original work, Anna Lvovsky interrogates the policing of queer sexual and cultural expression in the United States from the 1930s through the 1960s. . . This textured and innovative study will interest legal and urban historians and scholars of gender and sexuality in the United States." * Journal of American History *"In Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall, Anna Lvovsky tackles a topic—the history of police abuses of queer people and spaces—that historians have long documented and gives it an impressive new spin. Histories of LGBTQ experience in particular cities, for example, always include significant attention to these anti-LGBTQ policing practices. Lvovsky, however, turns this topic on its head by approaching the issue from the perspective of the state regulatory, police, and judicial systems. . . . Lvovsky has produced a work of impressive and fascinating scholarship. . ." * Contemporary Sociology *"Vice Patrol offers powerful lessons for today’s civil rights battles, both in the courts and online. The book uses a case study of state enforcement of anti-vice laws against gay people to tell a larger story about an epistemological struggle over facts and knowledge, as well as the limits, if any, they place on power." * Michigan Law Review *"Visibility is the clarion call of LGBT politics, but Vice Patrol scrambles the signal. Lvovsky takes familiar moments of gay visibility as her starting point, showing how media attention hardened stereotypes about gay culture. Those stereotypes had a curious afterlife in the legal system, leading to 'epistemic gaps' between enforcement institutions. . . . By elaborating on this process, Lvovsky reveals the 'regulatory underside' to gay cultural visibility. . . [and] brings new insight to a question that has puzzled scholars across several fields: Why and how does cultural representation lead to increased state repression?" * The University of Chicago Law Review *"Lvovsky’s sophisticated approach paints a complex portrait of the state apparatus aimed at regulating queer spaces . . . [Vice Patrol is] a crucial contribution to the scholarly literatures on LGBT communities and policing more generally. I expect it will be useful in part or in whole in courses for instructors in a wide range of disciplines, including history; women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; criminology; and sociology." * Journal of the History of Sexuality *“Lvovsky has done incredible detective work to take us deep inside the machinery of antigay policing during its peak years. Focusing on three distinct sites—the regulation of gay bars by state liquor agencies, the work of plainclothes decoys, and the policing of public restrooms through ‘peepholes’—Lvovsky shows that a legal system we assumed to be monolithically repressive was in fact internally divided about these practices. This subtle and smart book not only illuminates the boundaries around sexual difference but criminal justice as well. Revelatory in every sense of the word.” -- Margot Canaday, Princeton University"Lvovsky takes the vice patrolman—the villain who lurks at the edges of virtually every work of the queer communities that flourished in twentieth-century U.S. cities—and insistently pulls him into the spotlight. Vice Patrol is ambitious, meticulously researched, exceptionally well-conceived, and startlingly original. It deserves a wide readership among historians of law and legal history, LGBTQ history, urban history, and the history of policing and punishment. It is, in fact, a tour de force that will be read and reread by every scholar in the field and will lead us to ask new questions of our sources in the years to come." -- Timothy Stewart-Winter, Rutgers University“Lvovsky has written a splendid, insightful history of anti-gay policing in mid-twentieth century America. Vice Patrol shows how investigatory tactics evolved and how they prompted and were in turn shaped by debates about the nature and prevalence of same-sex desire, the appropriate limits on law enforcement, and the kinds of authority and expertise that should matter in answering those questions. It's a gripping read, combining rich, ground-level detail with sober assessments of what those decades-old struggles signified and what lessons they hold for us today.” -- David Sklansky, Stanford Law School“’The 'police’ and ‘the gay community’ are often portrayed as monolithic entities. In Vice Patrol, Lvovsky shows how each entity revealed the extraordinary diversity of the other through their interactions in the pre-Stonewall United States. This is the debut of an important new scholar, who can etch a legal world in scrimshaw with strokes that are both bold and sure.” -- Kenji Yoshino, New York University School of LawTable of ContentsList of Illustrations INTRODUCTION ONE / When Anyone Can Tell TWO / Expert Witnesses on Trial THREE / Plainclothes Decoys and the Limits of Criminal Justice FOUR / The Rise of Ethnographic Policing FIVE / Peepholes and Perverts SIX / The Popular Press and the Gay World EPILOGUE Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Notes Index
£91.00
The University of Chicago Press The Queerness of Home Gender Sexuality and the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Stephen Vider’s crisply written, gorgeously illustrated book on queer domesticity traces the transformation of the private sphere over the second half of the twentieth century in the United States. Home-life for LGBTQ people, he argues, evolved from a haven from state-sanctioned homophobia, to a revolutionary alternative to the heteronormative household, before ultimately becoming a homonormative domain entitled to legal protection. Each chapter is fascinating and fresh in its own way, and add up to something more than the sum of its parts: this is an important corrective to a queer historiography that has focused almost entirely on the public sphere." * Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution *“The Queerness of Home is a consequential achievement. Like any historian worth their salt, Vider knows how to tell a tale: this book’s prose is witty and clear as a mountain stream. More than that, it makes an irrefutable case that twentieth-century domestic environments have been momentous for LGBTQ individuals in the modern United States.” * Scott Herring, author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture *“This strikingly original book recovers the unexpected significance of queer forms of home life to LGBTQ people and politics since the mid-twentieth century. Ranging from the gay marriages and camp cookbooks of the 1950s and 1960s to the communes, queer homeless youth shelters, and lesbian feminist experiments in domestic redesign of the post-Stonewall years, Vider provides new insights into the intimate lives and broadest political claims of queer folk—and the meaning of domesticity itself. Creatively researched, beautifully written, and unfailingly smart, this is a first-rate work of revisionist history.” * George Chauncey, author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 *“An important history of how LGBTQ peoples make and sustain the homes of their choice and fight back against norms that oppress them. Vider reveals the lives, labors, and imaginations of LGBTQ home-makers, whose experiments with queer domesticities unfurl in vivid storytelling and amazing archival photographs.” * Nayan Shah, author of Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West *"Vider’s examination of the recent history of activist domesticity in the United States draws upon an extensive breadth of personal, public, and material sources. In its decade-by-decade chronicle the book discusses efforts to fit into the conformist households of the early Cold War, and examines later struggles to build alternative forms of domesticity, through communal living and rethinking architecture. . . . As well, despite its setting in a time of repression and epidemic, this is not a dark book. LGBTQ agency is at its core, and the narrative is a chronicle of contestation, adaptation, imagination, and, above all, creating community. In the face of hegemonic exclusion and repression, the activists in Vider’s study responded with art and humor and radical caregiving." * Journal of History *"Stephen Vider’s innovative new book, The Queerness of Home, offers a sweeping account of the centrality of the home and homemaking in challenging and renegotiating concepts of gender, sexuality, belonging, citizenship, and family, among many others, in the United States since the mid-twentieth century . . . Vider’s book is a most welcome contribution to many fields." * The Public Historian *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Politics and Performance of Home Part One. Integrations Chapter One. “Something of a Merit Badge”: Lesbian and Gay Marriage and Romantic Adjustment Chapter Two. “Oh Hell, May, Why Don’t You People Have a Cookbook?”: Camp Humor and Gay Domesticity Part Two. Revolutions Chapter Three. “The Ultimate Extension of Gay Community”: Communal Living, Gay Liberation, and the Reinvention of the Household Chapter Four. “Fantasy Is the Beginning of Creation”: Imagining Lesbian Feminist Architecture Part Three. Reforms Chapter Five. “Some Hearts Go Hungering”: Homelessness and the First Wave of LGBTQ Shelter Activism Chapter Six. “Picture a Coalition”: Community Caregiving and the Politics of HIV/AIDS at Home Epilogue: The Futures of the Queer Home Acknowledgments Notes Index
£78.85
The University of Chicago Press Of Maybugs and Men
Book SynopsisA much-needed exploration of the history and philosophy of scientific research into male homosexuality. Questions about the naturalness or unnaturalness of homosexuality are as old as the hills, and the answers have often been used to condemn homosexuals, their behaviors, and their relationships. In the past two centuries, a number of sciences have involved themselves in this debate, introducing new vocabularies, theories, arguments, and data, many of which have gradually helped tip the balance toward tolerance and even acceptance. In this book, philosophers Pieter R. Adriaens and Andreas De Block explore the history and philosophy of the gay sciences, revealing how individual and societal values have colored how we think about homosexuality. The authors unpack the entanglement of facts and values in studies of male homosexuality across the natural and human sciences and consider the extent to which science has mitigated or reinforced homonegative mores. The focus of the book is Trade Review“Prejudice against those who identify as LGBT is ongoing in our culture. This makes the magnificently comprehensive and thoughtful Of Maybugs and Men: A History and Philosophy of the Sciences of Homosexuality a work of pressing contemporary relevance. Covering a wide range of topics, from the questions of homosexuality in animals and of evolutionary perspectives on homosexuality, to the philosophical and social implications of judging any kind of sexuality as healthy or otherwise, indeed of even asking such questions, it is essential reading: for researchers, for those making and enforcing social policy, and more widely for all who think we should strive to understand the nature of ourselves, human beings. A very important book.” -- Michael Ruse, author of Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know"Against a long backdrop of simplistic discussions of the etiology of homosexuality, Of Maybugs and Men is a breath of fresh air. Pieter Adriaens and Andreas De Block explore not only the science of sexual orientation but also the indispensable value judgments that permeate empirical investigation. A must-read for anyone working on these topics—indeed, for anyone interested in how to approach history, science, and sexuality with rigor and nuance." -- John Corvino, author of What’s Wrong with Homosexuality?"With contemporary attitudes and concepts around gender, sex, and sexual orientation evolving at a breakneck pace, it can be hard to find one's footing or coherently navigate through the ever-changing—highly politicized—discourse. Helpfully, Adriaens and De Block have taken on the subject of same-sex sexual orientation from an interdisciplinary perspective: they draw on history, philosophy, and sociology of science, among other disciplines, to provide a much-needed, rich and illuminating frame of reference that will inform and challenge even the most seasoned scholars of sex and sexual orientation. At the same time, beginners will appreciate their clear, fresh writing tethered to many concrete examples and illustrations. Their book is a delight to read and marks an important contribution to our understanding of who we are as sexual beings." -- Brian D. Earp, coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality"Adriaens and De Block present an incisive review of research into male homosexuality from a philosophical perspective. They carefully dissect the meanings of terms that researchers often employ without a great deal of thought. Their ideas about the evolution of homosexuality are especially illuminating." -- Simon LeVay, author of Gay, Straight, and the Reason WhyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Thinking about Science and Homosexuality 1. Not by Genes and Hormones Alone: On Homosexuality and Innateness 2. Sham Matings and Other Shenanigans: On Animal Homosexuality 3. Beyond the Paradox: On Homosexuality and Evolutionary Theory 4. Values, Facts, and Disorders: On Homosexuality and Psychiatry Epilogue: Gaydars and the Dangers of Research on Sexual Orientation Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£85.00
The University of Chicago Press Looking through the Speculum Examining the
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A well-researched, eye-opening book about the evolution of the women’s health movement. Highly recommended for readers interested in feminist theory and activism. It’s also a must for people frustrated with and angered by the prevalent biases within the medical system.” * Library Journal *“At a moment when reproductive and bodily autonomy are under threat more than ever, Houck tells a timely story of women’s health movement activists who demystified and transformed reproductive medicine to establish liberatory health practices and institutions. Houck’s protagonists also grappled with intersectional marginalization, leading many to demand healthcare that embraced the particular needs and demands of lesbians, trans people, and women of color.” -- Jennifer Nelson, University of Redlands“Looking through the Speculum is a gripping account of the women’s health movement and the institutions women’s health activists built and ran from the 1970s into the twenty-first century. Houck chronicles how feminist health activists established women’s health clinics to offer an alternative to the patriarchal model of medicine in which male physicians controlled procedures, information, and medications central to women’s intimate lives. Houck takes us inside the clinics to illustrate how feminist activists put into practice ideas about feminist health care and feminist leadership models. Over time, as the patient population became less white, less heterosexual, and less cisgender, clinics had to deliver more expansive services and adjust to new leadership models to appeal to poorer and less privileged women, women of color, and patients seeking trans care. This is a book not only about women’s attempts to take control of their intimate health care needs, but also about struggles for democracy and leadership these changes brought. It is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand how political ideals were negotiated and renegotiated as women’s health activists struggled to adjust to the changing needs of their clients and the health care field at large.” -- Johanna Schoen, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: From the Speculum to the Clinic 1. With a Flashlight and a Speculum: Envisioning a Feminist Revolution 2. Feminist Health Services: Moving beyond the Speculum 3. Creating a Feminist Politics of Abortion 4. “Will We Still Be Feminist?”: Abortion Provision at the Chico Feminist Women’s Health Center 5. Lesbian Health Matters! Lesbians and the Women’s Health Movement 6. A Clinic of Our Own: Lyon-Martin Women’s Health Services 7. “Any Sister’s Pain”: Forging Black Women’s Sisterhood through Self-Help 8. “The Challenge of Change”: Feminist Health Clinics and the Politics of Inclusion Conclusion Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Notes Index
£85.00
The University of Chicago Press The Nuptial Deal SameSex Marriage and NeoLiberal
Book SynopsisSince the 1990s, gay and lesbian civil rights organizations have increasingly focused on the right of same-sex couples to marry, which represents a major change from earlier activists' rejection of the institution. This title explores this shift and its connections to the transformation of the US from a welfare state to a neo-liberal one.Trade Review"Decades from now, when historians reflect on today's same-sex marriage debate, The Nuptial Deal will provide an empirically based narrative of what was really going on in the lives and minds of activists and of ordinary people caught up in the political and personal hopes and struggles over marriage in the United States." (Christopher Carrington, San Francisco State University)"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Take the Young Stranger by the Hand
Book SynopsisThe history of American gender and sexuality is examined here through a case study of the YMCA, the organization devoted to young men. After 1900 the YMCA seemed to grow hostile towards masculine love, reflecting the struggle and shifting societal mores about masculine friendship and intimacy.
£24.00
John Wiley & Sons Boys Dont Cry
Book SynopsisThe Oscar-winning film Boys Don’t Cry (1999) offered the first mainstream access to transmasculine embodiment in North America. This book relocates the film within historical and conceptual contexts that influenced its ambivalent reception while emphasizing the importance of trans visibilities and representations in the mainstream.Trade Review“This thoughtful and insightful book reframes and deepens the conversation about Boys Don’t Cry. Joynt and Page make a strong case for reading the film’s influence in ways that break the long-established impasse of the ‘butch/FTM’ border wars. A useful guide to a major filmic text.” Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution“A thorough and insightful discussion of the films strength's and weaknesses, and a manifesto for future trans representation." Times Literary Supplement“A much-needed intervention into the kneejerk reactions to Boys Don’t Cry that moves the critical discussion out of the cycle of antagonism that has spiralled around the film since its release.” Cael Keegan, Grand Valley State University
£71.10
McGill-Queen's University Press Lost and Found Voices
Book SynopsisLost and Found Voices explores how four gay writers – Gombrowicz, Pereleshin, Taïa, and Mogutin – use language and exilic realities to voice their identities. Tracing their expressions of desire in language, culture, and community, Beaudoin offers a contextual queer reading that navigates the artists’ self-portrayals.Trade Review“Cogent and convincing, Lost and Found Voices juxtaposes the lives and writings of four queer émigré authors, working in different times, places, and languages, to allow transnational commonalities to emerge. Weaving his own personal experiences into the analysis, Beaudoin’s approach is bold and compelling.” Brian James Baer, Kent State University and author of Queer Theory and Translation Studies: Language, Politics, Desire“An insightful study that is strengthened by the author’s personal reflections... . The volume proves particularly timely in today’s political moment, when a new wave of LGBTQ+ refugees are fleeing a Russia that has redoubled its anti-gay stance." Modern Language Review
£71.10
McGill-Queen's University Press Appropriate Behavior
Book SynopsisMaria San Filippo explores Desiree Akhavan’s debut feature, Appropriate Behavior (2014), as an instant classic of 2010’s US indie filmmaking, a radical reappropriation of straight and gay film genres, a model for feminist-queer creative collaboration, and an unparalleled portrayal of bisexuality.Trade Review“This significant book offers an expansive discussion of a film that is widely enjoyed but not yet fully recognized for the ways it plays with, unsettles, and writes itself into the US independent and queer cinema canons. Often a rollicking good read, it speaks both to readers already knowledgeable about queer screen culture and recent shifts in the indie sector and to the average film lover.” Jodi Brooks, University of New South Wales, Sydney
£999.99
McGill-Queen's University Press 192 tout prendre et Il 233tait une fois dans lEst
Book SynopsisCe livre s’impose tel un véritable devoir de mémoire envers les pionniers du cinéma de fiction LGBTQ+ québécois avec ce premier et courageux aveu queer de Claude Jutra dans À tout prendre ainsi que la mise en scène par le duo Brassard-Tremblay dans Il était une fois dans l’Est d’une faune colorée s’affirmant dans un quartier modeste de Montréal.Trade Review« Ouvrage passionnant, à la fois érudit et accessible, vivant et nuancé, un plaisir à lire pour qui s’intéresse au cinéma, aux études queer, à la sociologie. Un des meilleurs essais québécois lus ces derniers mois, assurément. Destiné à devenir un classique en études LGBTQ+, et plus… » Michel Dorais, Université Laval, and the author of Don’t Tell : The Sexual Abuse of Boys«On pourrait presque rebaptiser ce livre Histoire queer du cinéma québécois.» Séquences«Grâce au travail de l’autrice, l’histoire du cinéma LGBTQ+ québécois se(ré)écrit sous nos yeux. ... Et la démarche de Vaillancourt s’opère alors comme un essentiel et indispensable devoir de mémoire.» Ciné-Bulles
£91.80
McGill-Queen's University Press 192 tout prendre et Il 233tait une fois dans lEst
Book SynopsisCe livre s’impose tel un véritable devoir de mémoire envers les pionniers du cinéma de fiction LGBTQ+ québécois avec ce premier et courageux aveu queer de Claude Jutra dans À tout prendre ainsi que la mise en scène par le duo Brassard-Tremblay dans Il était une fois dans l’Est d’une faune colorée s’affirmant dans un quartier modeste de Montréal.Trade Review« Ouvrage passionnant, à la fois érudit et accessible, vivant et nuancé, un plaisir à lire pour qui s’intéresse au cinéma, aux études queer, à la sociologie. Un des meilleurs essais québécois lus ces derniers mois, assurément. Destiné à devenir un classique en études LGBTQ+, et plus… » Michel Dorais, Université Laval, and the author of Don’t Tell : The Sexual Abuse of Boys«On pourrait presque rebaptiser ce livre Histoire queer du cinéma québécois.» Séquences«Grâce au travail de l’autrice, l’histoire du cinéma LGBTQ+ québécois se(ré)écrit sous nos yeux. ... Et la démarche de Vaillancourt s’opère alors comme un essentiel et indispensable devoir de mémoire.» Ciné-Bulles
£26.99
John Wiley & Sons Maurice
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£71.10
