Was ist Homosexualität?

Was ist Homosexualität?
Author: Florian Mildenberger
Publisher: Männerschwarm Verlag
Total Pages: 762
Release: 2014-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3863001753

Umreißt man heute die Ambivalenz, Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft von Homosexualität, so ist die Antwort auf die Frage gar nicht so einfach. Lange Zeit hätte man einfach gesagt: das Gegenteil von Heterosexualität, pervers, nicht den sexuellen Normen entsprechend, die innerhalb der westlichen Welt weitgehend akzeptiert waren. In einer globalisierten Welt, die gewachsene Strukturen und kulturelle Identitäten in Frage stellt, befindet sich auch die wissenschaftliche Betrachtung menschlicher Sexualitäten im Umbruch. Die Begriffe ändern sich, aus 'homosexuell' wurde 'schwul/lesbisch', dann 'LSBT*I', bzw. 'LGBT/GLBT', als weiterer Oberbegriff entwickelte sich 'queer', der auch die Heterosexualität in Teilen mit umfasst. Mit der zunehmenden Akzeptanz sexueller Vielfalt wächst aber auch die Sehnsucht nach einer klaren Ordnung, zeichnet sich eine neue Diskriminierung nicht-heterosexueller Lebensweisen ab. In dieser Situation bilanzieren die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bands, was in über hundert Jahren ‹Homosexualitätsforschung› geleistet wurde und vor welchen Herausforderungen eine sozialwissenschaftlich orientierte Sexualwissenschaft heute steht. Jeder Beitrag (einige in englischer Sprache) gibt einen allgemeinverständlichen Überblick über sein Themengebiet und schließt mit einer ausführlichen Literaturliste, die zu weitergehenden Studien einlädt. "Auch einer nichtwissenschaftlichen, aber am Thema interessierten Leserschaft kann das Buch empfohlen werden – um leichte Kost für eilige Leser handelt es sich bei diesem fast 600 Seiten starken Werk aber nicht. Lobenswert ist das ausführliche Autorenverzeichnis im Anhang, das bei einer besseren Einordnung und Nachvollziehbarkeit der unterschiedlichen Argumentationen hilft. Durch ein nicht minder ausführliches Register lassen sich wichtige Personen und Schlagworte schnell und unkompliziert lokalisieren. [...] hier handelt es sich um eine in diesem Umfang wohl einmalige Zusammenstellung, die sich auf der Höhe des aktuellen Forschungsstands befindet und gewiss noch einige Zeit als Grundlagenwerk gelten dürfte. (Matthias Meitzler in "Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung", Heft 2/2015)

The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism

The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism
Author: David Paternotte
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2016-03-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317042913

The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research in this subject. Each of the 22 specially commissioned chapters develops and summarises their key issue or debate in relation to activism-that is the claims, strategies and mobilisations (including internal debates and divisions, impediments and state responses) of the lesbian and gay movement. By drawing together leading scholars from political science, sociology, anthropology and history this companion provides an up to the minute snapshot of current scholarship as well as signposting several fruitful avenues for future research. This book is both an invaluable resource for scholars and an indispensable teaching tool for use in the classroom.

This Book Is Gay

This Book Is Gay
Author: Juno Dawson
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1728254612

The bestselling young adult non-fiction book on sexuality and gender! Lesbian. Gay. Bisexual. Transgender. Queer. Intersex. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference. This book is for anyone who's ever dared to wonder. This book is for YOU. This candid, funny, and uncensored exploration of sexuality and what it's like to grow up LGBTQ also includes real stories from people across the gender and sexual spectrums, not to mention hilarious illustrations. Inside this revised and updated edition, you'll find the answers to all the questions you ever wanted to ask, with topics like: Stereotypes—the facts and fiction Coming out as LGBT Where to meet people like you The ins and outs of gay sex How to flirt And so much more! You will be entertained. You will be informed. But most importantly, you will know that however you identify (or don't) and whomever you love, you are exceptional. You matter. And so does this book. This book is for: LGBTQIA+ teens, tweens, and adults Readers looking to learn more about the LGBTQIA+ community Parents of gay kids and other LGBT youth Educators looking for advice about the LGBTQIA+ community Praise for This Book is Gay: A Guardian Best Book of the Year 2018 Garden State Teen Book Award Winner "The book every LGBT person would have killed for as a teenager, told in the voice of a wise best friend. Frank, warm, funny, USEFUL."—Patrick Ness, New York Times bestselling author "This egregious gap has now been filled to a fare-thee-well by Dawson's book."—Booklist *STARRED REVIEW*

A Badge of Injury

A Badge of Injury
Author: Sébastien Tremblay
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2023-12-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 3111068315

A Badge of Injury is a contribution to both the fields of queer and global history. It analyses gay and lesbian transregional cultural communication networks from the 1970s to the 2000s, focusing on the importance of National Socialism, visual culture, and memory in the queer Atlantic. Provincializing Euro-American queer history, it illustrates how a history of concepts which encompasses the visual offers a greater depth of analysis of the transfer of ideas across regions than texts alone would offer. It also underlines how gay and lesbian history needs to be reframed under a queer lens and understood in a global perspective. Following the journey of the Pink Triangle and its many iterations, A Badge of Injury pinpoints the roles of cultural memory and power in the creation of gay and lesbian transregional narratives of pride or the construction of the historical queer subject. Beyond a success story, the book dives into some of the shortcomings of Euro-American queer history and the power of the negative, writing an emancipatory yet critical story of the era.

Queer Lives across the Wall

Queer Lives across the Wall
Author: Andrea Rottmann
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1487547811

Queer Lives across the Wall examines the everyday lives of queer Berliners between 1945 and 1970, tracing private and public queer life from the end of the Nazi regime through the gay and lesbian liberation movements of the 1970s. Andrea Rottmann explores how certain spaces – including homes, bars, streets, parks, and prisons – facilitated and restricted queer lives in the overwhelmingly conservative climate that characterized both German postwar states. With a theoretical toolkit informed by feminist, queer, and spatial theories, the book goes beyond previous histories that focus on state surveillance and the persecution of male homosexuality.

Racism and the Making of Gay Rights

Racism and the Making of Gay Rights
Author: Laurie Marhoefer
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2022-04-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 148753275X

In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student. The sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld, fell in love with the medical student, Li Shiu Tong. Li became Hirschfeld’s assistant on a lecture tour around the world. Racism and the Making of Gay Rights shows how Hirschfeld laid the groundwork for modern gay rights, and how he did so by borrowing from a disturbing set of racist, imperial, and eugenic ideas. Following Hirschfeld and Li in their travels through the American, Dutch, and British empires, from Manila to Tel Aviv to having tea with Langston Hughes in New York City, and then into exile in Hitler’s Europe, Laurie Marhoefer provides a vivid portrait of queer lives in the 1930s and of the turbulent, often-forgotten first chapter of gay rights.

Sexual Orientation and Transgender Issues in Organizations

Sexual Orientation and Transgender Issues in Organizations
Author: Thomas Köllen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2016-04-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 331929623X

Over the last decade workforce diversity has attracted much scientific attention. Given the shortage of literature on issues related to homosexual, bisexual and transgender employees, compared to other facets of workforce diversity, this book opens up new perspectives on this issue. Emphasis is placed on the equal consideration of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues. Thus the predominance of lesbian and gay issues in LGBT research (and practice), will be contrasted by an explicit consideration of the unique experiences, stressors and related needs of bisexual and transgender employees. Contributions provide deeper insights into the differing experiences the whole spectrum of LGBT employees make in the workplace in different national and occupational contexts. Furthermore, the collection offers contextualized insights for evaluating and conceptualizing organizational initiatives aiming at a higher level of inclusion for LGBT employees.

Studying Youth, Media and Gender in Post-Liberalisation India

Studying Youth, Media and Gender in Post-Liberalisation India
Author: Nadja-Christina Schneider
Publisher: Frank & Timme GmbH
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2014-11-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3865965350

This volume aims to look both at as well as beyond the ‘Delhi Gang Rape’ through the lens of Indian Media Studies. The editors consider it a critical event, or rather critical media event that needs to be contextualized within a rapidly changing, diversifying and globalizing Indian society which is as much confronted with new ruptures, asymmetries and inequalities as it may still be shaped by the old-established structures of a patriarchal social order. But the volume also looks beyond the ‘Delhi Gang Rape’ and introduces other related thematic areas of an emerging research field which links Youth, Media and Gender Studies.

Sexual Politics and Feminist Science

Sexual Politics and Feminist Science
Author: Kirsten Leng
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2018-02-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501713248

Introduction : women and sexology : knowledge, possibilities, and problematic legacies -- The emergence of sexology in early twentieth century Germany -- As natural as eating, drinking, and sleeping : redefining the female sex -- Challenging the limits of sex : envisioning new gendered subjectivities and sexualities -- Troubling normal, taking on patriarchy : criticizing male (hetero)sexuality -- The erotics of racial regeneration : eugenics, maternity, and sexual -- New social and moral values will have to prevail : negotiating crisis and opportunity in the First World War -- Fluid gender, rigid sexuality : constrained potential in the post-war period

The Hidden Holocaust?

The Hidden Holocaust?
Author: Günter Grau
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2013-08-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134261055

The persecution of lesbians and gay men by the Nazis is a subject that has been constantly debated during the last decade, providing a theme for books, articles, and plays. Until recently the discussion has remained speculative: most of the relevant documents were stored in closed East German archives, and access was denied to scholars and researchers. As a result of the unification of East and West Germany, these archives are now open. Hidden Holocaust, by the German scholars Gunter Grau and Claudia Shoppmann of Humboldt Uinversity, Berlin, demonstrates that the eradication of homosexuals was a declared gol of the Nazis even before they took power in 1933, and provide proof of the systematic anti-gay campaigns, the methods used tjo justify discrimination, and the incarceration mutilation and murder of gay men and women in Nazi concentration camps. A chilling but groud-breaking work in gay and lesbian studies.