1st Edition
The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities
1. An Introduction to the Geographies of Sex and Sexualities
Section I: Urban Sexualities
2. Urban Sexualities: Section Introduction
Gavin Brown, Tiffany Muller Myrdahl and Paulo Jorge Vieira
3. Disaggregating Sexual Metronormativities: Looking Back at ‘Lesbian’ Urbanisms
4. Dyked New York: The Space between Geographical Imagination and Materialization of Lesbian–Queer Bars and Neighbourhoods
5. Visibility on Their Own Terms? LGBTQ Lives in Small Canadian Cities
6. Trans(itional) Geographies: Bodies, Binaries, Places and Spaces
7. Sexualities and Urban Life
Section II: Sexual Politics
8. Sexual Politics: Section Introduction
9. Temptresses and Predators: Gender-based Violence, Safekeeping and the Production of Proper Subjects
10. Eco-sexual Normativity and Queer(ing) Ecologies
11. Tunnels of Social Growth within the Leviathan: A Story of China’s Super Girl
12. In Italy It’s Different: Pride as a Space of Political Contention
13. Radical Activism and Autonomous Contestation ‘From Sithin’: The Gay Centre in Tel Aviv
14. Intersectional Geopolitics, Transgender Advocacy and the New Media Environment
15. Sexual tensions in modernizing Singapore: the postcolonial and the intimate
Biography
Gavin Brown is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leicester, UK.
Kath Browne is Professor in Human Geography at the University of Brighton, UK.
"This immensely useful collection of essays rigorously and insightfully addresses urgent questions about sexuality, space and place in an impressive variety of contexts. It will be of benefit not only to geographers, but also to anyone interested in a rich, nuanced analysis of the production and control of sex, sexuality, and sexual and gender identities and subcultures." – Dean Spade, Seattle University School of Law, USA
"This volume definitively demonstrates that the study of sexuality is not a sub-field of Geography but rather a crucial and integral component that, taken up seriously, inherently redefines the field. Comprehensive, well-organized, and all-encompassing, it is a must for any syllabus not solely on sexuality studies, but more trenchantly, on human geography. The encapsulation of many decades of work on sexuality and its implications for the study and field of geography is breathtaking." – Jasbir K. Puar, Rutgers University, USA and author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
"On the whole [...] this book is an impressive marker in the field [...] For those who still hold doubts about the status of geographies of sexualities, the volume clarifies the real importance of the subject in how it can help us think about identity, behaviour, place and space. The value of this collection lies in helping to further cement (or for some, legitimise) geographies of sex and sexualities as a growing field of research with valuable provocations for scholars in numerous related fields. Sex and sexualities research can now boast a book capturing the healthy state of the discipline in 2017, as well as a useful reference work for scholars, researchers and policy workers alike." - Sam Miles, Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, in Antipode (January 2017)
