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Norah Vincent became an instant media sensation with the publication of Self-Made Man, her take on just how hard it is to be a man, even in a man’s world. Following in the tradition of John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me), Vincent spent a year and a half disguised as her male alter ego, Ned, exploring what men are like when women aren’t around. As Ned, she joined a bowling team, took a high-octane sales job, went on dates with women (and men), visited strip clubs, and even managed to infiltrate a monastery and a men’s therapy group.

Andrea Dworkin’s 1981 critique of pornography is an important and urgent document about how the culture consumes and manipulates images of women. Essential and discomfiting reading in a social media era, where women’s bodies are being commodified and displayed more than ever. Andrea...

In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the “orientation” aspect of “sexual orientation” and the “orient” in “orientalism,” Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time. Bodies take shape as they move through the world directing themselves toward or away from objects and others. Being “orientated” means feeling at home, knowing where one stands, or having certain objects within reach. Orientations affect what is proximate to the body or what can be reached.

Elias hat so richtig Mist gebaut, das weiß er. Er versteckt sich den Sommer über bei seiner Großmutter Catharina im Moor. Doch auch sie hütet ein Geheimnis, das alles infrage stellt, was Elias zu wissen glaubt ... Ein unendlich weiter Sommer, ein Vierteljahrhundert zuvor: Nach Jahren der Angst findet Catharina endlich den Mut, aus ihrer Ehe auszubrechen. Mit ihrer Tochter flieht sie in ein altes Haus im Moor. Während der Sonnentau im ersten Licht des Morgens leuchtet und die Rauchschwalben rufen, spürt sie sich zum ersten Mal wieder.

Written by a social worker, popular educator, and member of the transgender community, this well-rounded resource combines an accessible portrait of transgenderism with a rich history of transgender life and its unique experiences of discrimination. Chapters introduce transgenderism and its psychological, physical, and social processes. They describe the coming out process and its effect on family and friends, the relationship between sexual orientation, and gender and the differences between transsexualism and lesser-known types of transgenderism.