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  • Somerset
    Daniel Donaghy
    Somerset is an elegy for the Kensington section of Philadelphia in which the author was raised. Using a variety of styles and forms, it remembers people and cultures struggling to survive in the aftermath of deindustrialization and, now, an opioid epidemic. It is also a study in how our past continually informs our present, how we never fully leave those places in which our you...
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    15,52 €

  • Thousand Cricket Song
    Catherine Strisik
    The keen eye of compassion in each detail, the steady touch of its cadence in each unfolding line. Olga Broumas Author of Rave: Poems Here is a perfect, clean and delicate (powerful and often terrifying) work of art. In its simplicity lies profound emotion, both beautiful and laden with sadness. These masterful slim poems speak with...
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    15,05 €

  • Gay Children, Straight Parents
    Richard Cohen
    Hope and Healing for Families. Out of his own experience and the experience of many of those he has served in his counseling practice, Richard Cohen sets out a step-by-step plan that offers a path toward renewed family relationships grounded in love, faith and mutual respect. “Richard is movingly candid about the brokenness in his own family life, and he’s not afraid to get d...
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    18,55 €

  • If you look at it long enough...
    Paul Hallam
    Originally written for an academic journal, If you look at it long enough... is primarily a personal account of Paul Hallam’s recollections of “self-abuse” through the consumption of porn over several decades. Challenging the familiar form of an “academic essay,” this autobiographical narrative raises several questions in relation to our contemporary morals related to sex in ge...
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    11,30 €

  • Terms of Inclusion
    Paulina L. Alberto / Paulina LAlberto
    In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, and not just elite white Brazilians, shaped discourses about race relations and the cultural and political terms of inclusion in their modern nation.Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the prolific black press of the era, and focusin...
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    57,15 €

  • Lynching and Spectacle
    Amy Louise Wood
    Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In Lynching and Spectacle, Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles and how lynching played a role in establishing and affirming white supremacy. Lynching, Wood argues, overlapped with a...
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    50,76 €

  • Stark Truths
    Gillian P. Herbert
    “These linked stories trace a lesbian’s progress through the slowly changing face of homophobia in our lifetimes. From illegal lives filled with potential violence to the superficial equality that masks lingering prejudice, Gillian Herbert speaks bravely and honestly about one of the great issues of our time and how it impacted one woman’s life. This is a vital record that must...
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    11,45 €

  • Apsara in New York
    Sokunthary Svay
    Poetry collection by Sokunthary Svay, Khmer writer and musician from the Bronx, New York. She and her family were refugees from Cambodia who survived the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. “Sokunthary Svay’s Apsara in New York is truly like no other poetry collection I’ve read. Transnational and pan-ethnic in scope, the book begins in a refugee camp in Thailand, settles in the Bronx...
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    13,78 €

  • Through the Eyes of Rebel Women
    Iris Morales
    THROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 iTHROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 is the first account of women members — a 'story within a story' told from the inside out. The Young Lords Organization emerged in the late sixties to fight poverty, racial and gender inequality, and the colonial status of Puerto Rico. Women joined to build a...
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    31,39 €

  • I Promised Not to Tell
    Cheryl B Evans
    A Readers' Favorite 2017 Bronze Medal Award Winner.  Cheryl Evans and her husband Jim raised their children telling them: 'You can be anything and do anything you want in life.' They just never expected to learn that what their youngest daughter desired most in the world was to be a boy. Experience this powerful, raw and, deeply personal story as one family invites you to b...
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    14,94 €

  • Speaking Out
    Alan Berman / Berman Alan / Shirleene Robinson
    Based on the largest survey of gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersex, transgender and queer reactions to violence and harassment ever undertaken in Australia, this book gives voice to the many victims who have suffered in the state once recognised as Australia’s most homophobic. It tells of the barriers people face in dealing with the legal system, the reasons why some do not report...
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    41,71 €

  • Cuerpos Sin Voz
    Daniel Aillaud
    ¿Qué perdemos cuando dejamos de hablar sobre el aborto?Durante décadas, el aborto ha sido reducido a un enfrentamiento entre posturas irreconciliables. Sin embargo, detrás de cada discusión existen mujeres, familias, profesionales de la salud y sociedades enteras enfrentando uno de los dilemas más complejos de nuestro tiempo.En Cuerpos Sin Voz, Daniel Aillaud analiza la realida...
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    26,79 €

  • Die Kraft des organisierten Frauenaktivismus in der Türkei
    Ayşe Gönüllü Atakan
    Das Hauptziel dieser Studie ist es, die Auswirkungen des Frauenaktivismus auf die Agenda der Geschlechtergleichstellung in der Türkei zu untersuchen, insbesondere im Hinblick auf Gesetzesreformen. In diesem Zusammenhang widmet sich die Studie einer eingehenderen Bewertung der Kampagne für das türkische Strafgesetzbuch im Jahr 2005. Diese Arbeit zeigt, dass sich der Frauenaktivi...
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    100,09 €

  • Le pouvoir du militantisme féminin organisé en Turquie
    Ayşe Gönüllü Atakan
    L’objectif principal de cette étude est d’analyser l’impact du militantisme féminin sur le programme en faveur de l’égalité entre les sexes en Turquie, notamment en termes de réformes législatives. Dans ce contexte, cette étude se consacre à une évaluation plus approfondie de la campagne en faveur du Code pénal turc menée en 2005. Ce travail montre que le militantisme des femme...
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    100,03 €

  • Il potere dell’attivismo organizzato delle donne in Turchia
    Ayşe Gönüllü Atakan
    L’obiettivo principale di questo studio è quello di analizzare l’impatto dell’attivismo femminile sull’agenda della parità di genere in Turchia, in particolare in termini di riforme legislative. In questo contesto, lo studio è dedicato a una valutazione più approfondita della Campagna per il Codice Penale turco del 2005. Da questo lavoro emerge che l’attivismo femminile in Turc...
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    99,96 €

  • Siła zorganizowanego ruchu aktywistycznego kobiet w Turcji
    Ayşe Gönüllü Atakan
    Głównym celem niniejszego opracowania jest zbadanie wpływu aktywizmu kobiet na proces realizacji celów równości płci w Turcji, zwłaszcza w kontekście reform legislacyjnych. W tym kontekście niniejsze opracowanie poświęcone jest bardziej szczegółowej analizie kampanii na rzecz nowelizacji tureckiego kodeksu karnego z 2005 roku. Praca ta pokazuje, że aktywizm kobiet w Turcji, któ...
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    100,03 €

  • O poder do ativismo organizado das mulheres na Turquia
    Ayşe Gönüllü Atakan
    O principal objetivo deste estudo é investigar o impacto do ativismo feminino na agenda da igualdade de género na Turquia, especificamente em termos de reformas legislativas. Neste contexto, o presente estudo dedica-se a uma avaliação mais aprofundada da Campanha pelo Código Penal Turco de 2005. Este trabalho demonstra que o ativismo feminino na Turquia, que se inseriu no discu...
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    100,03 €

  • El género en los medios
    Gelsi Ausserbauer / Mariana Achugar
    ¿Por qué investigar la representación de la mujer en los medios de comunicación? Este libro parte de la base de que a través de las representaciones que circulan en la televisión y en la prensa se construye un mensaje que, a su vez, construye un sentido de la experiencia.A pesar de los avances sociales recientes, las desigualdades de género existen y se reproducen socioculturam...
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    9,31 €

  • Género, violencias y castigos en el Sur Global
    Gabriel Tenenbaum / Mariana Robello
    Este libro es un trabajo colectivo sobre los grupos subalternos en el campo de la criminalidad en el Sur global. El concepto gramsciano de subalternidad describe la condición de los grupos excluidos que carecen de enunciación en la sociedad y que son oprimidos debido a su género, sexualidad o clase social. Los capítulos de este volumen muestran espacios de resistencia simbólico...
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    19,71 €

  • Los crímenes de odio por homofobia a la luz de los derechos humanos en México
    Rodrigo Samavarti Landgrave Téllez
    El presente libro tiene por objeto de estudio los crímenes de odio por homofobia en México, sus primeras apariciones, el desarrollo de este fenómeno social, así como su evolución. Siendo una problemática social que proviene de estigmas, prejuicios y temores personales que se relacionan con la orientación sexual o identidad de género de una persona, por lo que, todo aquello que ...
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    19,24 €

  • Gender und Diversität in den Übersetzungskulturen der Frühen Neuzeit / Gender and Diversity in Early Modern Translation Cultures
    Übersetzende sind keine körper- und geschichtslosen Wesen. Sie schreiben sich selbst, ihr subjektives Textverständnis sowie die Normen der Zielkultur einer Übersetzung ein und richten sich dabei an spezifische Zielgruppen, die aus Menschen mit bestimmten Identitätsmerkmalen bestehen. Die philologische Utopie einer ‚treuen‘ Übersetzung, die den Ausgangstext ohne Abweichung wiede...
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    63,56 €

  • Ischaemic
    Andrew Cahill-LLoyd
    An interstate truck driver indulges his taste for queer kink on his extended periods from home. In the dark underbelly of Brisbane’s inner south, he roams as a psycho-sexual predator, leaving a trail of strangled gay teens in his wake. ...
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    33,43 €

  • The Secret Behind The Smile
    Michael Hughes / MICHAEL J HUGHES
    A fascinating story that tells the real reason for Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile. Michael Hughes’ research reveals the secret of a passionate affair between Lisa del Giocondo and Leonardo Da Vinci’s favoured apprentice Salai, set against the background of Leonardo’s lifelong illicit love for Salai ...
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    24,47 €

  • Notes From Under a Drowning Sky
    Jasper M Jones
    Nine-year-old Fern is left to fend for themself in a world ravaged by climate collapse. It’s all they’ve ever known. The drowned wilderness may be inching towards recovery, but humanity’s reign is over, and the forest watches Fern’s every move, weighing up the consequences of the child’s survival.When a foraging expedition leads to an unlikely encounter, everything changes.In a...
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    16,96 €

  • The Hinge States
    Omar Ghobashi-Nour
    In every era of rivalry, from empires to the Cold War to today, the balance between blocs has often been decided not in great capitals but in the corridors of states that rarely make headlines. The Hinge States argues that these middle powers are not simply followers orbiting larger planets. They are hinges: their consent, cooperation, or obstruction determines whether ambitiou...
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    44,61 €

  • Bids and Bullets
    Aisha Benhadi
    From imperial canals to twenty-first-century smart ports, the struggle for power has often been fought with concrete, steel, and contracts rather than with open conflict. 'Bids and Bullets' argues that the real drama of contemporary geopolitics unfolds in loan agreements, tender documents, and feasibility studies. Through a lens of infrastructure politics, the book shows how me...
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    44,54 €

  • Hit The Mat
    Veronica Hoss
    Hit The Mat follows four Olympic Gymnasts as they struggle and learn how to grow in themselves as athletes and as romantic partners. Jessica Albright comes from a conservative town in Texas where she has been overcoming a haunting past concerning her sexual identity. Michael Wellinger is a male gymnast and Jessica’s best friend at UCLA, and he struggles with coming out on his o...
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    123,09 €

  • dykes day, a holigay
    Hermetic State / Mayah Lovell
    'dykes day, a holigay' is an anthology of experimental writing exploring a multi-dimensional holiday for lesbians. This printed body of work explored themes of grief, celebrations, erotics, nightlife, and DC culture. Written by: Tahjia Brantley, Adaeze Okere, Mayah Lovell, Fabiola Ching, Pau B.C, and Maya Martinez; with guest editing by Grabrielle Octavia Rucker. Published by H...
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    29,95 €

  • The Recondite Voice
    Tricia Diaz
    Set as a journey in which the voice is discovered, channeled, and brought to the fore, the Recondite Voice: A Collection of Poems seeks to highlight this aspect of personal discovery and finding one’s unique, authentic expression in a sea of competing voices. Each poem looks at a unique part of human society and expresses its voice, life, and character. ...
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    14,14 €

  • Private Showers
    Dax Smith
    My Brooklyn apartment serves as the backdrop for a variety of wet, soapy bodies. ...
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    35,97 €