In »Selbstliebe« entwickelt bell hooks das Fundament für eine Gemeinschaft, in der Schwarze sowie alle anderen dem Schwarzsein voller Liebe begegnen. Welche Rolle spielt die Liebe für den politischen Widerstand? Wie konnte der Diskurs über Liebe im Zuge der Befreiungsbewegungen deren Wert für eine selbstbestimmte Schwarze Identität ....

For centuries, societies have treated male domination as natural to the human species. But how would our understanding of gender inequality—our imagined past and contested present— look if we didn’t assume that men have always ruled over women? If we saw inequality as something more fragile that has had to be constantly remade and ....

Achilles has fled her home and her vicious Myrmidon clan to live as a woman with the kallai, the transgender priestesses of Great Mother Aphrodite. When Odysseus comes to recruit the "prince" Achilles for a war against the Hittites, she prepares to die rather than fight as a man. However, her divine mother, Athena, intervenes, ....