scholarly journals Sexuality and Space: Queering Geographies of Globalization

2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasbir Kaur Puar ◽  
Dereka Rushbrook ◽  
Louisa Schein
Keyword(s):  
Sexuality And Space

Fictions of Containment in the Spanish Female Picaresque

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Kuffner
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Conduct Manuals ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Liminal Spaces ◽  
The Social ◽  
Counter Reformation ◽  
Sexuality And Space ◽  
Female Picaresque

This study examines the interdependence of gender, sexuality and space in the early modern period, which saw the inception of architecture as a discipline and gave rise to the first custodial institutions for women, including convents for reformed prostitutes. Meanwhile, conduct manuals established prescriptive mandates for female use of space, concentrating especially on the liminal spaces of the home. This work traces literary prostitution in the Spanish Mediterranean through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the rise of courtesan culture in several key areas through the shift from tolerance of prostitution toward repression. Kuffner’s analysis pairs canonical and noncanonical works of fiction with didactic writing, architectural treatises, and legal mandates, tying the literary practice of prostitution to increasing control over female sexuality during the Counter Reformation. By tracing erotic negotiations in the female picaresque novel from its origins through later manifestations, she demonstrates that even as societal attitudes towards prostitution shifted dramatically, a countervailing tendency to view prostitution as an essential part of the social fabric undergirds many representations of literary prostitutes. Kuffner’s analysis reveals that the semblance of domestic enclosure figures as a primary erotic strategy in female picaresque fiction, allowing readers to assess the variety of strategies used by authors to comment on the relationship between unruly female sexuality and social order.

Time for Sex

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ishita Pande
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
The Body ◽  
Clock Time ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
English Translations ◽  
Sexuality And Space ◽  
Women In India

This chapter examines attempts to standardize, internalize, and globalize sexual temporality—captured in the conceptualization of the body as clock—in the sexological advice offered to men and women in India in the early twentieth century. It first describes the constitution of “Hindu erotica” during the period and how these English translations gave rise to a set of foundational texts that would become the basis of global/Hindu sexology while filling them up with clock time. It then considers the ways that these texts attached life cycles to the chronological ordering of time by recasting brahmacharya—a prescription for a stage of life devoted to celibacy and learning—as an age-stratified organization of sexual behavior and a schema for sex education. By using the example of bodily temporality, the chapter addresses questions of sexuality and space in relation to globalization and transnational capitalism, colonialism and development.

Sexuality and Space

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen Elder ◽  
Lawrence Knopp
Keyword(s):  
Sexuality Research ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Professional Interest ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Sexuality And Space ◽  
The Right

. . . I have noticed with some dismay in recent years the appearance of tables representing various strange groups attending meetings of the Association of American Geographers. Marxist Geographers and Gay Geographers come to mind, and I wonder what next? Are we going to have a table of Whores in Geography, and Russian Communist Geography? . . . As for special tables, rooms and meeting times for such groups as Gay Geographers, we should flatly refuse any such groups the right to such representation. When engaging in their gay behavior they are not acting as geographers. . . . Our exclusion of such groups cannot be taken as a moralistic stand on the part of the Association, but simply as a professional one. It is not our business to support the Gay or the Street Walkers, or the Democrats or the Republicans. None of these groups, though they may have members or practitioners in geography, can be said to be geographers, per se. They should then not be permitted official or even associative status at our meetings. We have plenty to do in geography, and room for greater diversity of professional interest than almost any other society. There are, however, limits. We should confine our meetings to geography by geographers and for geographers. All others keep out. Carter (1977: 101–2) . . . In 1996, the Sexuality and Space Specialty Group (SSSG) came into being as a forum for addressing the sorts of sentiments expressed in the letter above, and for exploring the unquestioned heterosexuality of the geographical enterprise. While the sentiments expressed may seem extreme, they point to disciplinary resistances to certain lines of inquiry. The comments and the subsequent creation of the SSSG reveal how the topical contours of geography are, and always have been, politically negotiated. Until recently, sexuality research in geography had been considered especially out of place (see Valentine 1998; Chouinard and Grant 1995). Organized collectively under the aegis of the AAG, the SSSG represents considerable political will and work. Its presence underscores how marginalized groups can never take for granted their place in society, including the academy.

Queering the Redneck Riviera

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry T. Watkins III
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Sand Dunes ◽  
State Level ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Friendship Networks ◽  
World War ◽  
County Governments ◽  
Gay Bars ◽  
Fierce Competition ◽  
Sexuality And Space

After World War II, increasing numbers of southerners began populating the beaches of North Florida thanks to expanding automobility, better roads, and the new civic virtue: leisure spending. This inaugurated fierce competition for tourist dollars as motels, amusements, and restaurants replaced sand dunes at an ever-increasing rate. The quest for tourists had dramatic impact inland as well, as county governments, state-level commissions, and politicians grappled with maintaining a favorable public image in the search for increased revenue. Conflicts over how best to capitalize on tourism and sell their slice of “The Sunshine State” erupted as municipalities sought to purge an ever-shifting array of undesirables, exemplified by the slogan changes from “Redneck Riviera” to the aspirational “Miracle Strip” or “Emerald Coast.” Gay men, lesbians, and the otherwise queer were an essential part of “The Sunshine State.” Placing them at the center of this story exposes the unique interactions of capitalism, tourism, sexuality, and space. More than just a story of repression, this work also seeks to illuminate the fun that could be had on what came to be known as “The USA’s Gay Riviera” by the early 1990s. Using oral histories, newspapers, and a variety of other sources, this work recovers stories of campy LGBT beach parties, forgotten gay bars, and friendship networks that spanned the South.

scholarly journals Ottawa’s National Capital Commission Conservation Officers and the Policing of Public Park Sex

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Walby
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Public Park ◽  
Public Sex ◽  
National Capital ◽  
Sexuality And Space ◽  
Peace Officer ◽  
Information Requests

The National Capital Commission (NCC) is an organization responsible for so-called ‘beautification’ and land development around Canada’s capital city, Ottawa. This paper examines surveillance of public sex by NCC conservation officers in Ottawa’s parks. Conceptualizing NCC conservation officer work as policing, I analyze conservation officer occurrence reports obtained through federal-level access to information requests to examine how public male with male sexual activity is problematized and criminalized. This case study of NCC conservation officer work demonstrates how notions of so-called ‘appropriate’ sexuality and space usage can be shaped and reinforced through policing and surveillance conducted by governance agents who have peace officer status. Conservation officers have been excluded from studies of policing because of a bias towards conventional municipal officers in the policing literature as well as the marginal status of specialized enforcement agents. Contributing to the literature on policing of public sex, my analysis of conservation officer occurrence reports suggests that even when bylaws and park regulations concerning erotic acts are written in gender-neutral and innocuous language, these bylaws are enforced in ways that discriminate against public homoeroticism. Though NCC officer policing is integral to attempts at purifying urban space, because of their mandate to promote the spirit of Canada in the lands surrounding Ottawa I argue that sexuality is also a matter of national character for the NCC.

Class, sexuality and space: A comment

Sexualities ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Binnie
Keyword(s):  
Sexuality And Space

Constructing tourism landscapes - gender, sexuality and space

2000 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette Pritchard ◽  
Nigel J. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Sexuality And Space
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