List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Why Skype, why now?
Feeling my way
Milestones for Skype
Where to from here?
2 Queer phenomenology: from writing tables to digital screens
Getting orientated
Spinning outwards
Bodies
Screens
Space
3 Interviewing: face-to-face and on Skype
The participants
Feeling the interviews
Shifting senses
Internet sources or ‘vulgar geographies’
4 Selves, others, objects and space
The self in the box
The difference gender makes
‘Theatres of composition’
5 Families, friends and loved ones
Across the generations
Special occasions
‘Sinking’ into the spaces of Skype
6 Skype for work: ‘A bit weird’
Job interviews
Meetings and collegial communications
‘Disorientations’
7 Skype sex: ‘Queer effects’?
Katie’s story
Real sex and contrived sex
Generational difference?
8 Reorientating bodies and spaces
Lines of sight/site
Back to writing tables and digital screens
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Robyn Longhurst is Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic and Professor of Geography at University of Waikato. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography and Chair of the International Geographical Union Commission on Gender and Geography. Robyn has published on issues relating to digital media, pregnancy, mothering, sexuality, ‘visceral geographies’, masculinities, and body size and shape.
