ISBN:
0203980638
,
9780203980637
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (ix, 301 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Critical geographies
Parallel Title:
Print version Centring sexualities
DDC:
306.766091734
Keywords:
Rural gay men
;
Rural lesbians
;
Country life
;
Rural lesbians
;
Country life
;
Rural gay men
;
Sex
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gay Studies
;
Country life
;
Rural gay men
;
Rural lesbians
;
Kommunalpolitik
;
Metropole
;
Sexualität
;
Seksualiteit
;
Stadscultuur
;
Platteland
;
Culturele aspecten
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
14 On the borders of allegiance: identity politics in Ulster15 Transgression in Glasgow: a poet coming to terms; Author index; Subject index.
Abstract:
Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 The production of gay and the return of power; 2 Marginality on the tropic; 3 Region, religion and sexuality; 4 Margins of the city: towards a dialectic of suburban desire; 5 Eroticizing the rural; 6 Imagined geographies and sexuality politics; 7 The queer politics of gay pastoral; 8 Skirting the margins; 9 Marginalization and resistance: lesbians in Mexico; 10 Remapping same-sex desire; 11 Getting your kicks on Route 66!; 12 Mapping decolonization of male homoerotic space in Pacific Canada; 13 Devolutionary desires.
Abstract:
This book of critical rural geography breaks new ground by drawing attention to sex and sexualities outside the metropolis. It explores sexualities and sexual experiences in a variety of rural and marginal spaces with international contributions from a wide range of disciplines. These include: literary and cultural studies, lesbian and gay studies, geography, history and law. Among the topics uncovered are:* a lesbian in rural England* sexual life in rural Wales* sexuality in rural South Africa * scandal in the American South: sex, race and politics* nature and homosexuality in literature* Der
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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