Sex, Time and Place Queer Histories of London, c.1850 to the Present [Hardcover]

Sex, Time and Placeextensively widens the scope of what we might mean by 'queer London studies'. Incorporating multidisciplinary perspectives  including social history, cultural geography, visual culture, literary representation, ethnography and social studies  this collection asks new questions, widens debates and opens new subject terrain.

Featuring essays from an international range of established scholars and emergent voices, the collection is a timely contribution to this growing field. Its essays cover topics such as activist and radical communities and groups, AIDS and the city, art and literature, digital archives and technology, drag and performativity, lesbian Londons, notions of bohemianism and deviancy, sex reform and research and queer Black history.

Going further than the existing literature on Queer London which focuses principally on the experiences of white gay men in a limited time frame,Sex, Time and Placereflects the current state of this growing and important field of study. It will be of great value to scholars, students and general readers who have an interest in queer history, London studies, cultural geography, visual cultures and literary criticism.

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List of Contributors

Section 1: Framing Queer London

1. Structuring and Interpreting Queer Spaces of London
Simon Avery

2. Queer Temporalities, Queer Londons
Katherine M. Graham

3. Mapping This Volume
Simon Avery and Katherine M. Graham

Section 2: Exploring Queer London

4. London, AIDS and the 1980s
Matt Cook

5. Bigot Geography: Queering Geopolitics in Brixton
Emma Spruce

6. Representations of Queer London in the Fiction of Sarah Waters
Paulina Palmer

7. Are Drag Kings Still Too Queer for London? From the Nineteenth-Century Impersonator to the Drag King of Today
Kayte Stokoe