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Queer Encounters with Communist Power Non-Heterosexual Lives and the State in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989
ISBN: PB: 9788024642666, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2021
250 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In the repressive context of East European Communist regimes, how did young girls and boys come to realize their sexuality? What did they do with that self-awareness – and later on, as adu...
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£15,00
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Here Is a Game We Could Play A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781946724403, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, May 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A dreamlike novel set in Pennsylvania in the 1990s, Here Is a Game We Could Play is the story of Claudia, an intelligent eccentric trapped in the rundown industrial town she grew up in – a place plagued with troubling memories and hidden threats. See...
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Vice Patrol Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall
ISBN: PB: 9780226769783, ISBN: HB: 9780226769646, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
In 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 cl...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Open Secret The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton
ISBN: PB: 9780226761558, ISBN: HB: 9780226638744, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones
In 1922, Robert Allerton – described by the Chicago Tribune as the "richest bachelor in Chicago" – met a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. From then on, they were vi...
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£16,00
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£76,00
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Queer Legacies Stories from Chicago's LGBTQ Archives
ISBN: PB: 9780226727530, ISBN: HB: 9780226664972, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The variety of gay life in Chicago is too abundant and too diverse, to be contained in a single place. But since 1981, the Gerbert/Hart Library & Archives on the city's North Side has strived to do just that, amassing and cataloging a wealth of recor...
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£76,00
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Hidden Path
ISBN: PB: 9780997228786, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, October 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Set in early twentieth-century Spain, Hidden Path is a lyrical coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of a woman painter who struggles to find her way with art and with the women she loved. The novel is narrated in the first-person, following...
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£24,00
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Unspeakable A Life beyond Sexual Morality
ISBN: HB: 9780226733531, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones
The sexual exploitation of children by adults has a long, fraught history. Yet how cultures have reacted to it is shaped by a range of forces, beliefs, and norms, like any other social phenomenon. Changes in how Anglo-American culture has understood...
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Plague Years A Doctor's Journey through the AIDS Crisis
ISBN: HB: 9780226718767, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In 1992, Dr. Ross A. Slotten had the dubious distinction of signing more death certificates in the city of Chicago – and, by inference, the state of Illinois – than any other physician. As a family physician, he trained to care for patients from birt...
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Men without Maps Some Gay Males of the Generation before Stonewall
ISBN: PB: 9780226656113, ISBN: HB: 9780226656083, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
In "Men without Maps", John Ibson uncovers the experiences of men after World War II who had same-sex desires but few affirmative models of how to build identities and relationships. Though heterosexual men had plenty of cultural maps – provided by n...
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£62,00
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Cruising the Dead River David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront
ISBN: PB: 9780226603759, ISBN: HB: 9780226603612, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones
In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers' se...
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£26,00
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£74,00
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