Full Description
Recent years have seen a dramatic upsurge of interest in the connections between sexualities, space and place. Drawing established and 'founding' figures of the field together with emerging authors, this innovative volume offers a broad, interdisciplinary and international overview of the geographies of sexualities. Incorporating a discussion of queer geographies, Geographies of Sexualities engages with cutting edge agendas and challenges the orthodoxies within geography regarding spatialities and sexualities. It contains original and previously unpublished material that spans the often separated areas of theory, practices and politics. This innovative volume offers a trans-disciplinary engagement with the spatialities of sexualities, intersecting discussions of sexualities with issues such as development, race, gender and other forms of social difference.
Contents
Contents: Introduction, or why have a book on geographies of sexualities?, Gavin Brown, Kath Browne and Jason Lim. Section 1 Theories: From lesbian and gay to queer geographies: pasts, prospects and possibilities, Larry Knopp; Sexuality, the erotic and geography: epistemology, methodology and pedagogy, Jon Binnie; Health/sexuality/geography, Vincent J. Del Casino Jr.; Queer critique and the politics of affect, Jason Lim; Developmental desire and/or transitional jouissance: re-formulating sexual subjectivities in transcultural contact zones, Hanna Hacker; Fucking geography, again, David Bell. Section 2 Practices: Playing with restraints: space, citizenship and BDSM, R.D.K. Herman; Queer mixed race? Interrogating homonormativity through Thai interraciality, Jinthana Haritaworn; Drag queens and drab dykes: deploying and deploring femininities, Kath Browne; The queer unwanted and their undesirable 'otherness', Mark E. Casey; Straights in a gay bar: negotiating boundaries through time-spaces, Tatiana Matejskova; Between transgression and complicity (or: can the straight guy have a queer eye?), Phil Hubbard. Section 3 Politics: Pussies declawed: unpacking the politics of a queer women's bathhouse raid, Catherine Jean Nash and Alison L. Bain; Religion, identity and activism: queer Muslim diasporic identities, Farhang Rouhani; HIV+bodyspace: AIDS and the queer politics of future negotiation in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Matthew Sothern; Autonomy, affinity and play in the spaces of radical queer activism, Gavin Brown; Counting on queer geography, Michael Brown; Conclusions and future directions, or our hopes for geographies of sexualities (and queer geographies), Jason Lim, Kath Browne and Gavin Brown; Bibliography; Index.
