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This state-of-the-art review both charts and develops the rich sub-discipline geographies of sexualities, exploring sex-gender, sexuality and sexual practices. It 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
List of 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
About the author
Gavin Brown is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leicester, UK.
Kath Browne is Professor in Human Geography at the University of Brighton, UK.
Summary
This state-of-the-art review both charts and develops the rich sub-discipline geographies of sexualities, exploring sex-gender, sexuality and sexual practices. It 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
