In a Queer Place
Published on 28. October 2002
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-7546-0147-0 (ISBN)
Description
Starting from diverse theoretical perspectives, the eleven essays in this volume further scholarly debate in the study of gender and sexuality by exploring the relation of non-hetero sexualities to the geographies, poetics and legalities of belonging. The volume represents an important extension of the scope of lesbian and gay studies, as it shines fresh light on the very different locations of homosexualities within British and European contexts. Each essay draws on multiple sources, including historical and legal documents, the texts of literature and popular culture, ethnographic writings, and personal experience. In their attention to cultural, historical and textual specifics, the contributors deploy significant new research to elaborate fresh understandings of key concerns in the study of the social meanings of gender and sexuality.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 159 mm
Width: 198 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-0147-0 (9780754601470)
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Persons
Content
Section 1 At home in the world: Queer moods - the life and death of Charlotte Mew, Suzanne Raitt; The well of homeliness - South Asian queers in Britain, Ashley Tellis; A queer job for a girl - women postal workers, civic duty and sexuality 1870-80, Katie-Louise Thomas. Section 2 Movements in time and space: "Ladies" and "gentlemen" - location, gender and the dynamics of public sex, Dharman Jeyasingham; Cruising in queer street - streetwalking men in late-Victorian London, Mark W. Turner; The queerness of colonial space - Giovanni Comisso's travels with fascism, Derek Duncan. Section 3 Sexualities/legalities: queer renaissance bodies? - Sex, violence, and the constraints of periodisation, Alan Stewart; of Mollies - class and same-sex sexualities in the 18th century, Stephen Shapiro; Post-queer and beyond the PaCS - contextualising French responses to the civil solidarity pact, Murray Pratt; A Queer nation by rights - European integration, sexual identity politics, and the Discourse of Rights, Carl F. Stychin.