Full Description
Comprehensive and authoritative, this state-of-the-art review both charts and develops the rich sub-discipline geographies of sexualities, exploring sex-gender, sexuality and sexual practices. Emerging from the desire to examine differences and exclusions as a key aspect of human geographies, these geographies have engaged with heterosexual and queer, lesbian, gay, bi and trans lives. Developing thinking in this area, geographers and other social scientists have illustrated the centrality of place, space and other spatial relationships in reconstituting sexual practices, representations, desires, as well as sexed bodies and lives. This book reviews the current state of the field and offers new insights from authors located on five continents. In doing so, the book seeks to draw on and influence core debates in this field, as well as disrupt the Anglo-American hegemony in studies of sexualities, sexes and geographies. This volume is the definitive collection in the area, bringing together many international leaders in the field, alongside scholars that are well-established outside the Anglophone academy, and many emerging talents who will lead the field in the decades to come.
Contents
1. An Introduction to the Geographies of Sex and Sexualities
Section I: Urban Sexualities
2. Urban Sexualities: Section Introduction
Gavin Brown, Tiffany Muller Myrdahl and Paulo Jorge Vieira
3. Disaggregating Sexual Metronormativities: Looking Back at 'Lesbian' Urbanisms
4. Dyked New York: The Space between Geographical Imagination and Materialization of Lesbian-Queer Bars and Neighbourhoods
5. Visibility on Their Own Terms? LGBTQ Lives in Small Canadian Cities
6. Trans(itional) Geographies: Bodies, Binaries, Places and Spaces
7. Sexualities and Urban Life
Section II: Sexual Politics
8. Sexual Politics: Section Introduction
9. Temptresses and Predators: Gender-based Violence, Safekeeping and the Production of Proper Subjects
10. Eco-sexual Normativity and Queer(ing) Ecologies
11. Tunnels of Social Growth within the Leviathan: A Story of China's Super Girl
12. In Italy It's Different: Pride as a Space of Political Contention
13. Radical Activism and Autonomous Contestation 'From Sithin': The Gay Centre in Tel Aviv
14. Intersectional Geopolitics, Transgender Advocacy and the New Media Environment
15. Sexual tensions in modernizing Singapore: the postcolonial and the intimate
