Sexuality and Gender at Home Experience, Politics, Transgression

by Pilkey, Brent; Scicluna, Rachael M.; Campkin, Ben; Penner, Barbara; Cox, Rosie; Buchli, Victor

• ISBN13: 9781474239622
• ISBN10: 1474239625
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-05-18
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Sexuality at Home is the first book to explore the meanings and experiences of home through the framework of sexuality. Looking at a broad spectrum of both sexuality and domesticity, it examines the many ways in which home is constructed, performed and experienced in relation to sexuality. Considering identity issues such as age, class, ethnicity and gender, the authors problematize intimacy and question conventional ways of thinking about allegedly 'private' home space.

Comprehensive introductions to each of the book's three sections – on Intimacy and Home, Queering Home, Beyond Home – provide a coherent overview of the existing literature as well as additional historical and cultural context. Fifteen chapters present ground-breaking research and insights into sexuality and home across culture, time and space. Written by academics from a range of subject disciplines, chapters are based on research covering countries including Australia, France, Sweden, the UK, the USA, Guyana, Israel, and Singapore.

This highly original text is the ideal starting point for anyone wishing to get to grips with the emerging field of home and sexuality and will particularly appeal to researchers and students in anthropology, architecture, gender studies, sociology, and human geography.

Author Biography

Brent Pilkey is a Teaching Fellow at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK
Rachel Scicluna is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Manchester, UK
Ben Campkin is a Senior Lecturer at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK
Barbara Penner is a Senior Lecturer at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Series Preface: Why Home?
Victor Buchli, University College London, UK, and Rosie Cox, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Preface
Tom Boellstroff, University of California, Irvine, USA

Introduction: Sexuality and Gender at Home
Brent Pilkey, University College London, UK, and Rachael M. Scicluna, University of Kent, UK

Part I: Making Home

Introduction: Making Home
Ben Campkin, Brent Pilkey, and Barbara Penner, University College London, UK, and Rachel M.Scicluna, University of Kent, UK

1. Class, Sexuality and Home in Inter-War London
Elizabeth Darling, Oxford Brookes University, UK

2. Unhousing Sexuality: Sexuality and Singlehood in Singapore's Public Housing
Lilian Chee, National University of Singapore, Singapore

3. Negotiating Sexual Relationships and Alternative Domesticities in Shared Households in England
Sue Heath, University of Manchester, UK, and Rachel M.Scicluna, University of Kent, UK

4. Making a House a Home: Children and the Meanings of Home among Gay Men in the US
Ellen Lewin, University of Iowa, USA

Part II: Queering Home

Introduction: Queering Home
Ben Campkin and Brent Pilkey, University College London, UK

5. F the U-Haul: Janet Flanner's Paris and the Varieties of Lesbian Domesticity
Alice T. Friedman, Wellesley College, USA

6. Queering the Historic House: Destabilising Heteronormativity in the National Trust
Matt Smith, University of Brighton, UK

7. A Bend in the River: Home and Queer Heritage in a House in Hammersmith
Matt Cook, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

8. The Living Room and Sexuality: Lesbian Homes as Political Places
Rachel M. Scicluna, University of Manchester, UK

9. Que(e)rying Homonormativity: The Everyday Politics of Lesbian and Gay Homemaking
Andrew Gorman-Murray, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Part III: Beyond Home

Introduction: Beyond Home
Barbara Penner and Ben Campkin, University College London, UK

10. Crossing the Domestic Threshold: LGBTQ-Marketed Tradespeople Working in London's Homes
Brent Pilkey, University College London, UK

11. Castle and Cell: Exploring Intersections between Sexuality and Gender in the Domestic Lives of Men with Trans Identities and Histories
Laura Marshall, University College London, UK

12. Relational Persons of the Home: Intimacy, Transgressions and Boundary-Making
Narmala Halstead, University of East London, UK

13. Recreational Sex Not-at-Home: The Atmospheres of Sex Work in Tel Aviv
Dana Kaplan, The Open University, Israel

14. Letters Home
Ben Campkin, University College London, UK, and R. Justin Hunt, Syracuse University, London, UK

Index