When queer Jewish people migrated from Central Europe to the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they contributed to the creation of a new queer culture and communality in Palestine. This volume offers the first collection of studies on queer Jewish lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine (1870-1960). While the first section of the book presents queer geographies including ...

The tyrannies of sexual normativity have been widely denounced in queer theory. Heteronormativity, homonormativity, family values, marriage, and monogamy have all been objects of sustained queer critique, most often in purely oppositional form: as antinormativity. The contributors to this special issue ask a seemingly simple question of this critical code: can queer theory proceed without a primary ...

Bevat, benevens de inleiding en verslagen van discussies: Safe sex and the pornographic vernacular / Cindy Patton; The contemporary political use of gay history : the Third Reich / Stuart Marshall; Lesbian looks : Dorothy Arzner and female authorship / Judith Mayne; Looking for my penis : the eroticized Asian in gay video porn / Richard Fung; Skin head sex thing : racial difference and the homoerotic ...

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This essay argues that the politics of partition encourages an ever specialized particularism that also undergirds identity politics. In such a world of particulars, we become what our identities proclaim us to be. While accepting that differences exist, universalism interrupts the ontological claim of particularity in order to posit a noncausal relation between what we do, think, eat, wear, profess, ...

In My Queer War, James Lord tells the story of a young man s exposure to the terrors, dislocations, and horrors of armed conflict. In 1942, a timid, inexperienced twenty-one-year-old Lord reports to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to enlist in the U.S. Army. His career in the armed forces takes him to Nevada and California, to Boston, to England, and eventually to France and Germany, where he witnesses ...

Scholarship on Japan has recently broadened to include minority perspectives on communities from marginal workers to those whose sexuality has long been overlooked. This volume, with its combination of fieldwork in the gay and lesbian communities and the use of historical sources such as journals and documents, breaks important new ground in this field. It examines gay life in the Japanese Pacific ...

Menschen, die nicht ins heteronormative Raster der Gesellschaft passen, werden auch heute noch in vielen Lebensbereichen benachteiligt. Forschung und Wissensvermittlung helfen, diesen Diskriminierungen und bestehenden Vorurteilen zu begegnen und Akzeptanz gegenüber Lesben, Schwulen, Bisexuellen, Trans* und Inter* (LSBTI*) aufzubauen. So beschäftigen sich zahlreiche Forschungsarbeiten mit den Lebenswelten ...

Throughout the twentieth century in Poland various ideologies attempted to keep queer voices silent - whether those ideologies were fascist, communist, Catholic, or neo-liberal. Despite these pressures, there existed a vibrant, transgressive trend within Polish literature that subverted such silencing. This book provides in-depth textual analyses of several of those texts, covering nearly every decade ...

Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed key developments in LGBT history, including the growth of the world's first homosexual organizations and gay and lesbian magazines, as well as an influential community of German sexologists and psychoanalysts. Queer Identities and Politics in Germany describes these events in detail, from vibrant gay social scenes to the Nazi persecution ...

Critical analysis of the dramatisation of homosexuality in British fiction about the Second World War is noticeable only by its relative absence from the field. Whereas feminist literary criticism has broadened the canon of war fiction to include narratives by and about women, queer scholars have seldom focused on literary representations of homosexuality during the war. Natalie Marena Nobitz closes ...

"Masquerade" is the most comprehensive anthology of poetry by American gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered persons. It includes representative poems from over 100 writers from pre-colonial Native America and Hawaii to the end of the Second World War. The anthology begins with selections of anonymous texts from the oral traditions of Hawaii and Native America, followed by voodoo chants and ...