Queer Presences and Absences

Carsten Balzer, Free University Berlin, Germany Chiara Bertone, University of East Piedmont, Italy Max Biddulph, University of Nottingham, UK Mark Casey, Newcastle University, UK Youngsook Choi, independent researcher Jen Jack Gieseking, City University of New York, USA Andrew Gorman-Murray, University of Western Sydney, Australia Beatrice Gusmano, University of Trento, Italy Jan Simon Hutta, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Kate?ina Li ková, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Karina Luzia, Macquarie University Sydney, Australia Nick Rumens, University of Bristol, UK

'Drawing on original research, this elegant and accomplished book offers a nuanced account of queer lives, communities and politics. Focusing on cultures, places and experiences oft-neglected within mainstream gay scholarship, this collection significantly advances understandings of the relationship between sexual diversity, home-making and exclusionary processes of belonging within the contemporary world.' - Davina Cooper, Professor of Law & Political Theory, University of Kent, UK.

• 1. Against the Dignity of Man: Sexology Constructing Deviance during 'Normalization' in Czechoslovakia; Katerina Lišková 2. Community at the Backstage: Gays and Lesbians in the Czech Republic; Katerina Nedbálková 3. Lesbian Lives and Real Existing Socialism in Late Soviet Russia; Francesca Stella 4. Identities and Citizenship under Construction: Historicising the 'T' in LGBT Anti-violence Politics in Brazil; Jan Simon Hutta and Carsten Balzer 5. Liminal Subjects, Marginal Spaces and Material Legacies: Older Gay Men, Home and Belonging(s); Andrew Gorman-Murray 6. The Meaning of Home for Transgendered People; Youngsook Choi 7. Belonging: Lesbians and Gay Men's Claims to Material Spaces; Mark Casey 8. 'That's not really my scene': Working-class Lesbians in (and out of) Place; Yvette Taylor 9. Queering the Meaning of 'Neighbourhood': Reinterpreting the Lesbian-Queer Experience of Park Slope, Brooklyn, 1983-2008; Jen Jack Gieseking 10. Present Absences: Hidden Geographies of Lesbian Parenting; Karina Luzia 11. 'Queer' and 'Teacher' as Symbiosis? Exploring Absence and Presence in Discursive Space'; Max Biddulph 12. Organisation Studies: Not Nearly 'queer enough'; Nick Rumens 13. Queerying the Public Administration in Italy: Local Challenges to a National Standstill; Chiara Bertone and Beatrice Gusmono