Bodies and Boundaries of UK Bear Spaces [Paperback]

1. Bears & Bearspace (Introduction)? 2. Bear Identifications? 3. Bear Bodies? 4. Bear Venues? 5. Bear Cities? 6. Bear Boundaries? 7. Bear Spatialities (Conclusion)?

Bodies & Boundaries of UK Bear Spaces?is an exploration of the spaces of the UKs Bear community  and the people who are in them. It?is of value to anyone interested in Bears and/or LGBTQ spaces, as well as scholars of men and masculinities, bodies and fatness, gender studies, and sexuality and queer studies.

With this book Nick McGlynn moves beyond an interrogation of Bear as a gay subcultural identity, to examine how Bear/yness is?produced?through the relationships between bodies and places. In doing so, Nick not only offers fresh new insights into who Bears are, what they do, and where. He also demonstrates the value of geographical thinking to understanding contemporary queer spaces and cultures.?

Gavin Brown, Visiting Professor of Geography, University College Dublin and CEO of Trade Sexual Health, Leicester?

Nick McGlynn immerses you in the world of Bear spaces - or better, Bear/y spaces as we come to learn - with much humour and insight in this pageturner disguised as academic text. The combination of everyday practices with theoretical insights, and the personal with the political, makes this book appealing and relevant for a broad audience, whether you are a regular to GBQ nightlife in the UK, a feminist, an academic working on sexualities, or just a fan of Bears.

Valerie De Craene, Guest Professor in Geography at Ghent University, Belgium

Nick McGlynn is a senior lecturer in Geography at the University of Brighton (UK). His research has explored the experiences of fat GBQ men in UK Bear spaces; the geographies of LGBTQ equalities and policymaking; and makinlƒÈ