De-centring sexualities : politics and representations beyond the metropolis /

This book of critical rural geography breaks new ground by drawing attention to sex and sexualities outside the metropolis. It explores sexualities and sexual experiences in a variety of rural and marginal spaces with international contributions from a wide range of disciplines. These include: liter...

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Other Authors: Shuttleton, David, Watt, Diane, 1965-, Phillips, Richard, 1965-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Series:Critical geographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • The production of gay and the return of power / Alan Sinfield
  • Marginality on the tropic / Dennis Altman
  • Region, religion and sexuality: pilgrim through this barren land / Kate Chedgzoy
  • Margins of the city: towards a dialectic of suburban desire / Barry Langford
  • Eroticizing the rural / David Bell
  • Imagined geographies and sexuality politics: the city, the country and the age of consent / Richard Phillips
  • The queer politics of gay pastoral / David Shuttleton
  • Skirting the margins: Anne Lister, self-representation and lesbian identity in early nineteenth-century Yorkshire / Anira Rowanchild.
  • Marginalization and resistance: lesbians in Mexico / Sue Willman
  • Remapping same-sex desire: queer writing and culture in the American heartland / William J. Spurlin
  • Getting your kicks on Route 66!: stories of gay and lesbian life in rural America, c. 1950-1970s / Angelia R. Wilson
  • Mapping decolonization of male homoerotic space in Pacific Canada / Gordon Brent Ingram
  • Devolutionary desires / Lynne Pearce
  • On the borders of allegiance: identity politics in Ulster / Vincent Quinn
  • Transgression in Glasgow: a poet coming to terms / Edwin Morgan.