1st Edition
The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities
Comprehensive and authoritative, this state-of-the-art review both charts and develops the rich sub-discipline geographies of sexualities, exploring sex-gender, sexuality and sexual practices. Emerging from the desire to examine differences and exclusions as a key aspect of human geographies, these geographies have engaged with heterosexual and queer, lesbian, gay, bi and trans lives. Developing thinking in this area, geographers and other social scientists have illustrated the centrality of place, space and other spatial relationships in reconstituting sexual practices, representations, desires, as well as sexed bodies and lives. This book reviews the current state of the field and offers new insights from authors located on five continents. In doing so, the book seeks to draw on and influence core debates in this field, as well as disrupt the Anglo-American hegemony in studies of sexualities, sexes and geographies. This volume is the definitive collection in the area, bringing together many international leaders in the field, alongside scholars that are well-established outside the Anglophone academy, and many emerging talents who will lead the field in the decades to come.
1. An Introduction to the Geographies of Sex and Sexualities
Kath Browne and Gavin Brown
Section I: Urban Sexualities
Gavin Brown, Tiffany Muller Myrdahl and Paulo Jorge Vieira (editors)
2. Urban Sexualities: Section Introduction
Gavin Brown, Tiffany Muller Myrdahl and Paulo Jorge Vieira
3. Disaggregating Sexual Metronormativities: Looking Back at ‘Lesbian’ Urbanisms
Julie A. Podmore
4. Dyked New York: The Space between Geographical Imagination and Materialization of Lesbian–Queer Bars and Neighbourhoods
Jen Jack Gieseking
5. Visibility on Their Own Terms? LGBTQ Lives in Small Canadian Cities
Tiffany Muller Myrdahl
6. Trans(itional) Geographies: Bodies, Binaries, Places and Spaces
Lynda Johnston and Robyn Longhurst
7. Sexualities and Urban Life
Gustav Visser
Section II: Sexual Politics
Kath Browne and Gavin Brown (editors)
8. Sexual Politics: Section Introduction
Gavin Brown and Kath Browne
9. Temptresses and Predators: Gender-based Violence, Safekeeping and the Production of Proper Subjects
Jason Lim and Alexandra Fanghanel
10. Eco-sexual Normativity and Queer(ing) Ecologies
Emma A. Foster
11. Tunnels of Social Growth within the Leviathan: A Story of China’s Super Girl
Camila Bassi
12. In Italy It’s Different: Pride as a Space of Political Contention
Cesare Di Feliciantonio
13. Radical Activism and Autonomous Contestation ‘From Sithin’: The Gay Centre in Tel Aviv
Chen Misgav
14. Intersectional Geopolitics, Transgender Advocacy and the New Media Environment
Natasha Vine and Julie Cupples
15. Sexual tensions in modernizing Singapore: the postcolonial and the intimate
Natalie Oswin
Section III: Decolonizing Sexualities
Robert Kulpa and Joseli Maria Silva (editors)
16. Decolonizing Queer Epistemologies: Section Introduction
Robert Kulpa and Joseli Maria Silva
17. Queer Affirmations and Embodied Knowledge in the Brazilian Performance Group Dzi Croquettes
Jan Simon Hutta
18. Feminist and Queer Epistemologies beyond Academia and the Anglophone World: Political Intersectionality and Transfeminism in the Catalan Context
Maria Rodó-de-Zárate
19. Performing Academy: Feedback and Diffusion Strategies for Queer Scholactivists in France
Rachele Borghi, Marie Hélène/Sam Bourcier, Cha Prieur
20. Writing through Activisms and Academia: Challenges and Possibilities
Niharika Banerjea, Kath Browne, Leela Bakshi and Subhagata Ghosh
21. ‘Wake up, Alice, This is Not Wonderland!’: Power, Diversity and Knowledge in Geographies of Sexualities
Joseli Maria Silva and Marcio Jose Ornat
Section IV: Mobile Sexualities
Andrew Gorman-Murray and Catherine J. Nash (editors)
22. Mobile Sexualities: Section Introduction
Andrew Gorman-Murray and Catherine J. Nash
23. Moving to Paris! Gays and Lesbians: Paths, Experiences and Projects
Marianne Blidon
24. Queer Migration: Going South from China to Australia
Audrey Yue
25. Evolving Bodies: Mapping (Trans)Gender Identities in Refugee Law
Senthorun Raj
26. Queer Political Geographies of Migration and Diaspora
Farhang Rouhani
27. You’ve Come a Long Way Baby: Unpacking the Metaphor of Transgender Mobility
Petra Doan
28. LGBT Communities, Identities and the Politics of Mobility: Moving from Visibility to Recognition in Contemporary Urban Landscapes
Andrew Gorman-Murray and Catherine J. Nash
Section V: Sexual Health
Andrew Tucker (editor)
29. Sexual Health: Section Introduction
Andrew Tucker
30. Queering Epidemiology
Gerry Kearns
31. ‘Why Must We Stay in This Cage?’ Governing Sexuality in Biomedical Research
Stephen Taylor
32. Relocation and Negotiation: Integrating Mobilities in Gay Men’s Sexual Health
Nathaniel M. Lewis
33. Reconsidering Relationships between Homophobia, Human Rights and HIV/AIDS
Andrew Tucker
Section VI: Commercial Sexualities
Maarten Loopmans (editor)
34. Commercial Sexualities: Section Introduction
Maarten Loopmans
35. Sex Work, Urban Governance and the Gendering of Cities
Phil Hubbard
36. Defining Commercial Sexualities, Past and Present
Magaly Rodríguez García
37. Sexualities, Tropicalizations and the Transnational Sex Trade: Brazilian Women in Spain
Joseli Maria Silva and Marcio Jose Ornat
38. Beyond Dichotomies of Victimization versus Agency: Bringing in Gendered Spatial Subject Positions Related to Intimacy
Marlene Spanger
Section VII: Digital Sexualities
Catherine J. Nash and Andrew Gorman-Murray (editors)
39. Digital Sexualities: Section Introduction
Catherine J. Nash and Andrew Gorman-Murray
40. Sexting, Schools and Surveillance: Mediated Sexuality in the Classroom
Kath Albury
41. Youth Online: Non-heterosexual Young People’s Use of the Internet to Negotiate their Identities, Support Networks and Sociosexual Relations
Gary Downing
42. ‘Male Blood Elves Are So Gay’: Gender and Sexual Identity in Online Games
Cherie Todd
43. Horny at the Bus Stop, Paranoid in the Cul-de-sac: Sex, Technology and Public Space
Sharif Mowlabocus
44. Digital Technologies and Sexualities in Urban Space
Catherine J. Nash and Andrew Gorman-Murray
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)
