Book Cover
E-book

Title De-centring sexualities : politics and representations beyond the metropolis / edited by Richard Phillips, Diane Watt and David Shuttleton
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2000

Copies

Description 1 online resource (ix, 301 pages)
Series Critical geographies
Critical geographies.
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
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 homosexuality in literature* Der
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Rural gay men.
Rural lesbians.
Country life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
Country life
Rural gay men
Rural lesbians
Kommunalpolitik
Metropole
Sexualität
Seksualiteit.
Stadscultuur.
Platteland.
Culturele aspecten.
Form Electronic book
Author Shuttleton, David
Watt, Diane, 1965-
Phillips, Richard, 1965-
ISBN 0203980638
9780203980637
0415194652
9780415194655
9780415194662
0415194660