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This book explores sexualities and sexual experiences in a variety of rural and marginal spaces, with contributions from a wide range of disciplines.
Sommario
PART I Non-metropolitan sexualities , 1 The production of gay and the return of power 2 Marginality on the tropic 3 Region, religion and sexuality: pilgrim through this barren land 4 Margins of the city: towards a dialectic of suburban desire PART II Beyond the metropolis 5 Eroticizing the rural 6 Imagined geographies and sexuality politics: the city, the country and the age of consent 7 The queer politics of gay pastoral 8 Skirting the margins: Anne Lister, self-representation and lesbian identity in early nineteenth-century Yorkshire PART III Deconstructing metropolitan models 9 Marginalization and resistance: lesbians in Mexico 10 Remapping same-sex desire: queer writing and culture in the American heartland 11 Getting your kicks on Route 66!: stories of gay and lesbian life in rural America, c. 1950-1970s 12 Mapping decolonization of male homoerotic space in Pacific Canada PART IV Devolving sexualities 13 Devolutionary desires 14 On the borders of allegiance: identity politics in Ulster 15 Transgression in Glasgow: a poet coming to terms
Info autore
Richard Phillips lectures in Geography at Salford University. His publications include
Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure (1997). David Shuttleton lectures in English and Film at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He has published on eighteenth-century and modern literature, and is the author of
Queer Pastoral: Nature, Homosexuality and Modernity. Diane Watt is senior lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She has published an edited collection and a book, both about women's writing and history. She has also written a number of articles about gender and sexuality, and contributed to
Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender and Sexuality (1997).
Riassunto
This book explores sexualities and sexual experiences in a variety of rural and marginal spaces, with contributions from a wide range of disciplines.
