Locating Queer Histories

Places and Traces across the UK

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

426 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Beskrivning

Ranging from the mid-19th century to the present, and from Edinburgh to Plymouth, this powerful collection explores the significance of locality in queer space and experiences in modern British history. The chapters cover a broad range of themes from migration, movement and multiculturalism; the distinctive queer social and political scenes of different cities; and the ways in which places have been reimagined through locally led community history projects. The book challenges traditional LGBTQ histories which have tended to conceive of queer experience in the UK as a comprising a homogeneous, national narrative.Edited by leading historians, the book foregrounds the voices of LGBTQ-identified people by looking at a range of letters, diaries, TV interviews and oral testimonies. It provides a unique and fascinating account of queer experiences in Britain and how they have been shaped through different localities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-04-18
Mått:154 x 232 x 12 mm
Vikt:300 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350252530

Utforska kategorier

Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Matt Cook is Professor of Modern History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He is the author of Queer Domesticities: Homosexuality and Home Life in 20th-Century London (2014) and London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914 (2003).Alison Oram is Professor of Social and Cultural History at Leeds Beckett University, UK. She is the author of Her Husband Was a Woman!: Women's Gender Crossing and Modern British Culture (2007) and the Lesbian History Sourcebook (2001).Justin Bengry is Lecturer in Queer History at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. His forthcoming monograph is entitled The Pink Pound: Capitalism and Homosexuality in 20th-Century Britain.

Recensioner i media

Locating Queer Histories: Places and Traces Across the UK offers an ambitious and wide-ranging exploration of LGBTQ+ history that challenges the “meteronormative” bias often found in queer scholarship ... The collection emphasizes the profound importance of locality in shaping queer histories and provides fresh insights into how places influence the development of sexual politics and culture.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction1. ‘Great Expectations: Migrating to Edinburgh’, Alva Träbert2. ‘The North South Divide? Examining Queer Intersections between Newcastle upon Tyne and London’, Gareth Longstaff3. ‘Sectarianism and queer lives in Northern Ireland since the 1970s’, Sean Brady4. ‘Queer Transplanting from the Himalayas to Yorkshire: Reginald Farrer’s Loves for Men and Alpine Plants (1880-1920)’, Dominic Janes5. ‘“Cool and Green and Lovely Beyond Anything”: Oxford’s Parson’s Pleasure 1844-1992’, George Townsend6. ‘Tracing Queer Black Spaces in Interwar Britain’, Caroline Bressey and Gemma Romain,7. ‘London Suburbs and the Co-Creation of LGBT+ Jewish Identities’, Searle Kochberg and Margaret Greenfields,8. ‘The queer politics and pleasure of community resistance to Section 28 on Brighton Beach, 1988-1994’, Louise Pawley9. ‘Taking Pride in Plymouth’s Past’, Alan Butler10. ‘A “Queer Collection”: The English Colony in Florence, 1890 – 1940’, Rachel Hope Cleves Notes on ContributorsIndex