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

by Avery, Simon; Graham, Katherine M.

• ISBN13: 9781474234924
• ISBN10: 1474234925
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-10-06
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Sex, Time and Place extensively 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 Place reflects 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.

Author Biography

Simon Avery is Reader in Modern Literature and Culture and Co-director of the Queer London Research Forum at the University of Westminster, UK.

Katherine M. Graham is Visiting Lecturer and Co-director of the Queer London Research Forum at the University of Westminster, UK.

Table of Contents

Introductions
1. Introduction One: Queer Spaces of London: Surveying the Field Simon Avery (University of Westminster, UK)
2. Introduction Two: 'Time, Temporality and Queer London' Katherine M. Graham (University of Westminster, UK)
Part I: Medicine
3. AIDS and the City Matt Cook (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)
4. The British Society of the Study of Sex Psychology: Advocating the Culture of Unnatural and Criminal practices Lesley Hall (The Wellcome Trust, UK)
Part II: Lives: Intersections and Revisions
5. Simeon Solomon in Queer London: Mingling with the Ungodly Carolyn Conroy (University of York, UK)
6. London in the Novels of Sarah Waters Paulina Palmer (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)
7. Queering London in Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty and The Stranger's Child Bart Eeckhout (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
8. Claude McKay: Queer Interwar London and Spaces of Black Radicalism Gemma Romain and Caroline Bressey (University College London, UK)
9. Narratives of Progress and Sexuality in Brixton Emma Spruce (London School of Economics, UK)
Part III: Performance, Clubs, Nightclubs and Societies
10. Queer London's Drag Kings Kayte Stokoe (University of Warwick, UK)
11. Orientalism, Pornography, and Male-Male Desire in Late-Victorian London: Cannibal London Silvia Antosa (University of Palermo, Italy)
12. Francis Bacon and the Depiction of Queers as Criminal: Painful Revelation Dominic Janes (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)
13. Lesbian Lowlife in Pre-Chinatown Soho, 1914-1931 Anne Witchard (University of Westminster, UK)
Part IV: Technology
14. Grindring the London Gay Community: Out of Soho, Back into the Closet Marco Venturi (University College London, UK)
15. Contemporary London, Digital Archives and Queer Affect: Being “There” Sam McBean (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
Afterword
16. Conclusions and Possible Futures
Index
Index