Sex, time and place : queer histories of London, c.1850 to the present / edited by Simon Avery and Katherine M. Graham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Avery, Simon, editor.

Graham, Katherine M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay people--England--London--History.

Gay people.

Sex--England--London--History.

Sex.

Public spaces--England--London--History.

Public spaces.

History.

London (England)--Social life and customs.

London (England).

Manners and customs.

England--London.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 299 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

Summary:

Sex, Time and Place extensively widens the scope of what we might mean by 'queer London studies'. Incorporating multidisciplinary perspectives - including social history, cultural geography, visual culture, literary representation, ethnography and social studies - this collection asks new questions, widens debates and opens new subject terrain. Featuring essays from an international range of established scholars and emergent voices, the collection is a timely contribution to this growing field. Its essays cover topics such as activist and radical communities and groups, AIDS and the city, art and literature, digital archives and technology, drag and performativity, lesbian Londons, notions of bohemianism and deviancy, sex reform and research and queer Black history. Going further than the existing literature on Queer London which focuses principally on the experiences of white gay men in a limited time frame, Sex, Time and Place reflects the current state of this growing and important field of study. It will be of great value to scholars, students and general readers who have an interest in queer history, London studies, cultural geography, visual cultures and literary criticism.

Contents:

Section 1 Framing Queer London 1

1 Structuring and Interpreting Queer Spaces of London / Simon Avery Avery, Simon 3

2 Queer Temporalities, Queer Londons / Katherine M. Graham Graham, Katherine M. 23

3 Mapping This Volume / Simon Avery Avery, Simon, Katherine M. Graham Graham, Katherine M. 41

Section 2 Exploring Queer London 47

4 London, AIDS and the 1980s / Matt Cook Cook, Matt 49

5 Bigot Geography: Queering Geopolitics in Brixton / Emma Spruce Spruce, Emma 65

6 Representations of Queer London in the Fiction of Sarah Waters / Paulina Palmer Si Si, Paulina Palmer

7 Are Drag Kings Still Too Queer for London? From the Nineteenth-Century Impersonator to the Drag King of Today / Kayte Stokoe Stokoe, Kayte 97

8 Claude McKay: Queering Spaces of Black Radicalism in Inter war London / Gemma Romain Romain, Gemma, Caroline Bressey Bressey, Caroline 115

9 The British Society of the Study of Sex Psychology: 'Advocating the Culture of Unnatural and Criminal Practices'? / Lesley A. Hall Hall, Lesley A. 133

10 Cannibal London: Racial Discourses, Pornography and Male-Male Desire in Late-Victorian Britain / Silvia Antosa Antosa, Silvia 149

11 'Famous for the paint she put on her face': London's Painted Poofs and the Self-Fashioning of Francis Bacon / Dominic Janes Janes, Dominic 167

12 Mingling with the Ungodly: Simeon Solomon in Queer Victorian London / Carolyn Conroy Conroy, Carolyn 185

13 Alan Hollinghurst's Fictional Ways of Queering London / Bart Eeckbout Eeckbout, Bart 203

14 Sink Street: The Sapphic World of Pre-Chinatown Soho / Anne Witchard Witchard, Anne 221

15 Chasing Community: From Old Compton Street to the Online World of Grindr / Marco Venturi Venturi, Marco 239

16 Being 'There': Contemporary London, Facebook and Queer Historical Feeling / Sam McBean McBean, Sam 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474234924

1474234925

9781474234931

1474234933

OCLC:

934676771

Publisher Number:

99969872756