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Author:   David Bell (University of Leeds, UK) ,  Gill Valentine
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   annotated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9780415111638

ISBN 10:   0415111633
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   23 March 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Orientations, David Bell, Gill Valentine; Cartographies/Identitie; Chapter 2 Re-Solving Riddles, Julia Cream; Chapter 3 Locating Bisexual Identities, Clare Hemmings; Chapter 4 Of Moffies, Kaffirs and Perverts, Glen Elder; Chapter 5 Femme on the Streets, Butch in the Sheets, Alison Murray; Chapter 6 Body Work, Linda McDowell; Sexualised Spaces: Global/Local; Chapter 7 Wherever I Lay My Girlfriend, that's My Home, Lynda Johnston, Gill Valentine; Chapter 8 The Lesbian FlÂneur, Sally Munt; Chapter 9 Fantasy Islands, Gregory Woods; Chapter 10 Sexuality and Urban Space, Lawrence Knopp; Sexualised Places: Local/Global; Chapter 11 ‘And She Told Two Friends’, Tamar Rothenberg; Chapter 12 Trading Places, Jon Binnie; Chapter 13 Bachelor Farmers and Spinsters, Jerry Lee Kramer; Chapter 14 (Re)Constructing a Spanish Red-Light District, Angie Hart; Sites of Resistance; Chapter 15 ‘Surveillant Gays’, David Woodhead; Chapter 16 Sex, Scale and the ‘New Urban Politics’, Michael Brown; Chapter 17 ‘Boom, Bye, Bye’, Tracey Skelton; Chapter 18 The Diversity of Queer Politics and the Redefinition of Sexual Identity and Community in Urban Spaces, Tim Davis; Chapter 19 Perverse Dynamics, Sexual Citizenship and the Transformation of Intimacy, David Bell;

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A amjority of essays and studies deal with various topics from gay and lesbian past and present, venturing occasionally to speculation about the future. It is an importanat research book.. <br>- Angles <br> adds a significant and necessary dimension to queer theory by grounding it in questions of how we navigate everyday life. Mapping Desire extends the notion of queer beyond the practices of bodies in the bedroom and examine the ways that sexuality is inscribed on the body and in the landscape.. <br>- parachute <br> Mapping Desire, with its invaluable bibliography, is an important new resource in expanding the debate on the correlation between sexual identity and the multifaceted realms of space. <br>- Lambda Book Report <br>

A amjority of essays and studies deal with various topics from gay and lesbian past and present, venturing occasionally to speculation about the future. It is an importanat research book.. - Angles adds a significant and necessary dimension to queer theory by grounding it in questions of how we navigate everyday life. Mapping Desire extends the notion of queer beyond the practices of bodies in the bedroom and examine the ways that sexuality is inscribed on the body and in the landscape.. - parachute Mapping Desire, with its invaluable bibliography, is an important new resource in expanding the debate on the correlation between sexual identity and the multifaceted realms of space. - Lambda Book Report

Author Information

David Bell is Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield. Gill Valentine is Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield.

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