A master’s thesis in the field of translation studies about the way queerness exhibits in the different Finnish translations of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. The thesis is written in Finnish, and a 13-page English summary is included at the end of the document. This thesis is an examination of the queerness of Jo…
Roman von 1907 von Walter Homann (1887-1918), teilweise basierend auf dem Fall der Comtesse Dina Alma de Paradeda (1871-1906). Von klein auf wird der “Blonde Dori” von seinen Klassenkameraden gehänselt. Oft wird er “Puppe” genannt. Früh vertraut er seiner besten Freundin an dass er “lieber ein Mädchen sein würde”. Später wird Dori als Damen-Imitator berühmt…
The Hebrew Bible offers a metaphor of marriage that portrays men and women as complementary, each with their distinct and ‘natural’ roles. Queer Theory and the Prophetic Marriage Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible draws on contemporary scholarship to critique this hetero-normativity. The book examines the methodological issues involved in the application of queer theory to…
This book focuses on the subject of the development of masculinity and femininity. It shows that the perverse scene aims not only at denying castration, but also at securing a more solid basis for a jeopardized sexual identity.
In this rollicking queer western adventure, acclaimed cartoon- ist Melanie Gillman (Stonewall Award Honor Book As the Crow Flies) puts readers in the saddle alongside Flor and Grace, a Latinx outlaw and a trans runaway, as they team up to thwart a Confederate plot in the New Mexico Territory. When Flor – also known as…
Macho Sluts is a 1988 book of erotic short stories by Pat Califia, published by Alyson Publications. Then lesbian identified, Califia had written the stories between 1977 and 1988 during a period of fierce struggle between lesbian feminist sadomasochism practitioners and anti-pornography feminists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Media scholar Carolyn Bronstein has characterized…
UPDATE: Unfortunately, the publisher forced us to take this down. You can still access it on Anna’s Archive. Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and–in flesh and…
Once upon a time there lived… a beautiful prince who kissed a frog. A cinder-smudged child who hid a secret. A princess who climbed a long braid of golden hair for love. A thumb-sized boy with the courage of a giant. And a valiant little tailor whose wit was as sharp as her needle. These…
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity,…
From award-winning and best-selling author, Leslie Feinberg, comes Drag King Dreams, the story of Max Rabinowitz, a butch lesbian bartender at an East Village club where drag kings, dykes dressed as men, perform. A veteran of the women’s and gay movement of the past 30 years, Max’s mid-life crisis hits in the midst of the…