ISBN:
9780415111638
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (368 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Mapping Desire:Geog Sexuality
DDC:
306.7
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This is the first book to explore sexualities from a geographical perspective. The nature of place and notions of space are of increasing centrality to cultural and social theory. Mapping Desire presents the rich and diverse world of contemporary sexuality, exploring how the heterosexual body has been appropriated and resisted on the individual, community and city scales. The geographies presented here range across Europe, America, Australasia, Africa, the Pacific and the imaginary, cutting across city and country and analysing the positions of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and heterosexuals
Description / Table of Contents:
BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FIGURES AND PLATES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION: ORIENTATIONS; SECTION ONE: CARTOGRAPHIES/IDENTITIE; 2 RE-SOLVING RIDDLES; 3 LOCATING BISEXUAL IDENTITIES; 4 OF MOFFIES, KAFFIRS AND PERVERTS; 5 FEMME ON THE STREETS, BUTCH IN THE STREETS; 6 BODY WORK; SECTION TWO: SEXUALISED SPACES: GLOBAL/LOCAL; 7 WHEREVER I LAY MY GIRLFRIEND, THAT'S MY HOME; 8 THE LESBIAN FLÂNEUR; 9 FANTASY ISLANDS; 10 SEXUALITY AND URBAN SPACE; SECTION THREE SEXUALISED PLACES: LOCAL/GLOBAL; 11 'AND SHE TOLD TWO FRIENDS'; 12 TRADING PLACES
Description / Table of Contents:
13 BACHELOR FARMERS AND SPINSTERS14 (RE)CONSTRUCTING A SPANISH REDLIGHT DISTRICT; SECTION FOUR SITES OF RESISTANCE; 15 'SURVEILLANT GAYS'; 16 SEX, SCALE AND THE 'NEW URBAN POLITICS'; 17 'BOOM, BYE, BYE'; 18 THE DIVERSITY OF QUEER POLITICS AND THE REDEFINITION OF SEXUAL IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY IN URBAN SPACES; 19 PERVERSE DYNAMICS, SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF INTIMACY; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; A GUIDE TO FURTHER READING; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
