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Queering the Underworld Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History
ISBN: PB: 9780226327914, ISBN: HB: 9780226327907, University of Chicago Press, December 2007
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing
At the start of the twentieth century, tales of "how the other half lives" experienced a surge in popularity. People looking to go slumming without leaving home turned to these narratives for spectacular revelations of the underworld and sordid detai...
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£30,00
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£68,00
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Politics of Same-Sex Marriage
ISBN: PB: 9780226720012, University of Chicago Press, October 2007
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 line drawings, 4 tables
Same-sex marriage emerged in 2004 as one of the hottest issues of the campaign season. But in a severe blow to gay rights advocates, all eleven states that had the issue on the ballot passed amendments banning the practice, and the subject soon dropp...
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£24,00
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Bellissima Feminine Beauty and the Idea of Italy
ISBN: PB: 9780300176803, Yale University Press, July 2007
328 pp., 23.5x19.1 cm, black&white illus.
"Das Rheingold", "Die Walkure", and "Siegfried". Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of the nineteenth century's most influential operas – and created some of the most indelible characters ever to gra...
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£25,00
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Invention of Heterosexuality
ISBN: PB: 9780226426013, University of Chicago Press, June 2007
305 pp., 21.2x15.5 cm, 1 haltone
"Heterosexuality", assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny. In this boldly original work, Jonathan Ned Katz challenges the common notion that the distinction between heterosexuality and h...
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£17,50
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