ISBN:
9781441141903
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (329 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Queer Cities, Queer Cultures : Europe since 1945
DDC:
306.76/6094
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Queer Cities, Queer Cultures examines the formation and make-up of urban subcultures and situates them against the stories we typically tell about Europe and its watershed moments in the post 1945 period. The book considers the degree to which the iconic events of 1945, 1968 and 1989 influenced the social and sexual climate of the ensuing decades, raising questions about the form and structure of the 1960s sexual revolution, and forcing us to think about how we define sexual liberalization - and where, how and on whose terms it occurs. An international team of authors explores the role of Amer
Description / Table of Contents:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; (Dis)ordering queer Europe; Imagining and reimagining the queer city; Queer maps; Repression, progression and hybridization; Notes; Further reading; Pasts; Chapter 1 The queer margins of Spanish cities, 1939-2010; Introduction; Longevity, memories and strategies of resistance; The novelization/fictionalization of the queer past; The geography of queer space; In Madrid, from Chueca to Lavapiés: The post-colonial city queers the queers; From inappropriate bodies to exemplars of the new tourism; Conclusion; Notes
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Further readingChapter 2 Capital stories: Local lives in queer London; Alan16; Michael24; Ajamu X33; Conclusion; Notes; Further reading; Chapter 3 The queer road to Frisind: Copenhagen 1945-2012; Bar life; Street life; Lifelong relationships; Associational life; Oppression; The Ugly Law; The consequences of the Ugly Law; The 1970s; AIDS, equal rights and homogenizing; Liberation or normalization?; Notes; Further reading; Chapter 4 Harmless kisses and infinite loops: Making space for queer place in twenty-first century Berlin; Memorials; The politics of representation; Gendering persecution
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The memorial as media eventConclusion; Notes; Further reading; Chapter 5 From Stalinist pariahs to subjects of 'Managed Democracy': Queers in Moscow 1945 to the present; After victory, after Stalin; Queer solidarities in late-Soviet life; Post-communist, Postmodern; Notes; Further reading; Chapter 6 Queer Amsterdam 1945-2010; Foreplay and context; Social situation; Gay sex at a breaking point; The rise of a gay capital; The sexual revolution; Gays and lesbians join social institutions; Gay life after the sexual revolution; The new millennium: Gays, Muslims and straights; Notes
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Further readingChapter 7 Ljubljana: The tales from the queer margins of the city; The sixties and seventies: Hide and seek; The Eighties: First we take . . . Berlin; The nineties: Out of the closet . . . into the margins of the city; The 2000s: Action and re-action; Conclusion; Notes; Further reading; Chapter 8 Mapping/Unmapping: The making of queer Athens1; 'Every night queers wander around central Athens': Mapping the homosexual subculture of the capital, ca. 1970; 'A gay bar in Athens!'; 'Sexual Inflation'; The police, the party and the memoir
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Coda: Homosexual topography and the queer cityNotes; Further reading; Chapter 9 Istanbul: Queer desires between Muslim tradition and global pop; 12 points; Turkey's transitional periods: Kemalist modernization and military coups; Turkish sex; Istanbul hamam: Architecture of seduction; Istanbul at night: Queer music and bars; Notes; Further reading; Chapter 10 Queering Budapest1; Before state socialism; During state socialism; After state socialism; Conclusion; Notes; Further reading; Chapter 11 Two cities of Helsinki? One liberally gay and one practically queer?1
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War history and its impact on sexualities and gender in Finland
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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