De-centering sexualities : politics and representations beyond the metropolis / edited by Richard Phillips, Diane Watt and David Shuttleton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phillips, Richard.

Watt, Diane.

Shuttleton, David.

Series:

Critical Geographies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Country life.

Gay men.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London; New York : Garland Pub., 2000.

Summary:

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: literary and cultural studies, lesbian and gay studies, geography, history and law. Among the topics uncovered are:* a lesbian in rural England* sexual life in rural Wales* sexuality in rural South Africa * scandal in the American South: sex, race and politics* nature and homosexualit

Contents:

Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 The production of gay and the return of power; 2 Marginality on the tropic; 3 Region, religion and sexuality; 4 Margins of the city: towards a dialectic of suburban desire; 5 Eroticizing the rural; 6 Imagined geographies and sexuality politics; 7 The queer politics of gay pastoral; 8 Skirting the margins; 9 Marginalization and resistance: lesbians in Mexico; 10 Remapping same-sex desire; 11 Getting your kicks on Route 66!; 12 Mapping decolonization of male homoerotic space in Pacific Canada; 13 Devolutionary desires

14 On the borders of allegiance: identity politics in Ulster15 Transgression in Glasgow: a poet coming to terms; Author index; Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-134-64824-3

9786610138760

1-280-13876-9

0-203-98063-8

1-134-64823-5

9780203980637

OCLC:

475942474