Books by Madeline D. Davis
“The book wants to redeem the butch-femme way of structuring lesbian intimacy and sociability, the idea that women come together, performing specific gender roles, with one woman performing the more male role and the other women performing the more feminine role. This was absolutely discredited in lesbian feminism from the 1970s onwards. And this book tries to bring back and redeem this butch-femme kind of constellation, and those butch-femme practices, describing them as a kind of pre-political resistance. “ Read more...
The best books on Queer History
Benno Gammerl, Historian
Interviews where books by Madeline D. Davis were recommended
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Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution
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Queer London
by Matt Houlbrook -
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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy & Madeline D. Davis -
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Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
by Kevin Mumford -
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How Soon is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers and the Queerness of Time
by Carolyn Dinshaw
The best books on Queer History, recommended by Benno Gammerl
The best books on Queer History, recommended by Benno Gammerl
Queer history is not simply about exploring the historical incidence of non-heteronormative sexual desire and experience. It is also a way of looking at the past and of placing gender and sexuality at the heart of historical change. Here, Benno Gammerl, professor of Gender and Sexuality at the European University Institute, explains.
