Bibliograph

How we desire, Carolin Emcke ; translated from the German by Imogen Taylor

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How we desire, Carolin Emcke ; translated from the German by Imogen Taylor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-245)

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How we desire

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Carolin Emcke ; translated from the German by Imogen Taylor

Summary

How We Desire is an enthralling essay about gender, sexuality and love by one of Germany's most admired writers. It's about growing up, and discovering the contours of desire and difference, about understanding that we sometimes, 'slip into norms the way we slip into clothes, putting them on because they're laid out for ready for us'. In telling her own story, Emcke draws back the veil on how we experience desire, no matter what our sexual orientation. And she examines how prejudice against homosexuality has survived its decriminalisation in the west

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