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Oscar Wilde Prefigured Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900
ISBN: HB: 9780226358642, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones
"I 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...
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£32,00
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Visions of Queer Martyrdom from John Henry Newman to Derek Jarman
ISBN: HB: 9780226250618, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones
With all the heated debates around religion and homosexuality today, it might be hard to see the two as anything but antagonistic. But in this book, Dominic Janes reveals the opposite: Catholic forms of Christianity, he explains, played a key role in...
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£40,00
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Thug Life Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop
ISBN: PB: 9780226395852, ISBN: HB: 9780226395845, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 3 halftones
Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and DJing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated b-boying and graffiti. Now hip-hop is a global phenomenon and, in the United States,...
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£22,50
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£58,50
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