Mapping Desire is the first book to explore sexualities from a geographical perspective. The nature of place and notions of space are of increasing centrality to cultural and social theory. Mapping Desires presents the rich and diverse world of contemporary sexuality, exploring how the heterosexed body has been appropriated and resisted on the individual, community and city scales.
Author(s): David Bell, Gill Valentine
Edition: annotated edition
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1995
Language: English
Commentary: 58782
Pages: 368
BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
FIGURES AND PLATES......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 10
1 INTRODUCTION: ORIENTATIONS......Page 12
SECTION ONE: CARTOGRAPHIES/IDENTITIE......Page 38
2 RE-SOLVING RIDDLES......Page 39
3 LOCATING BISEXUAL IDENTITIES......Page 48
4 OF MOFFIES, KAFFIRS AND PERVERTS......Page 61
5 FEMME ON THE STREETS, BUTCH IN THE STREETS......Page 70
6 BODY WORK......Page 78
SECTION TWO: SEXUALISED SPACES: GLOBAL/LOCAL......Page 98
7 WHEREVER I LAY MY GIRLFRIEND, THAT'S MY HOME......Page 99
8 THE LESBIAN FLÂNEUR......Page 115
9 FANTASY ISLANDS......Page 126
10 SEXUALITY AND URBAN SPACE......Page 147
SECTION THREE SEXUALISED PLACES: LOCAL/GLOBAL......Page 160
11 ‘AND SHE TOLD TWO FRIENDS’......Page 161
12 TRADING PLACES......Page 177
13 BACHELOR FARMERS AND SPINSTERS......Page 193
14 (RE)CONSTRUCTING A SPANISH REDLIGHT DISTRICT......Page 206
SECTION FOUR SITES OF RESISTANCE......Page 220
15 ‘SURVEILLANT GAYS’......Page 221
16 SEX, SCALE AND THE ‘NEW URBAN POLITICS'......Page 233
17 ‘BOOM, BYE, BYE’......Page 252
18 THE DIVERSITY OF QUEER POLITICS AND THE REDEFINITION OF SEXUAL IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY IN URBAN SPACES......Page 270
19 PERVERSE DYNAMICS, SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF INTIMACY......Page 289
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 302
A GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 305
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 309
INDEX......Page 338
