Mapping Desire:Geog Sexuality [Paperback]

David Bell (Author), Gill Valentine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 26, 1995 | ISBN-10: 0415111641 | ISBN-13: 978-0415111645 | Edition: annotated edition

This is the first book to explore sexualities from a geographical perspective. The nature of place and notions of space are of increasing centrality to cultural and social theory. Mapping Desire presents the rich and diverse world of contemporary sexuality, exploring how the heterosexual body has been appropriated and resisted on the individual, community and city scales. The geographies presented here range across Europe, America, Australasia, Africa, the Pacific and the imaginary, cutting across city and country and analysing the positions of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and heterosexuals. The contributors ring different interests and approaches to bear on theoretical and empirical material from a wide range of sources. The book is divided into four sections: cartographies/identities; sexualised spaces: global/local; sexualised spaces: local/global; sites of resistance. Each section is separately introduced. Beyond the bibliography, an annotated guide to further reading is also provided to help the reader map their own way through the literature.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A amjority of essays and studies deal with various topics from gay and lesbian past and present, venturing occasionally to speculation about the future. It is an importanat research book..
–Angles

adds a significant and necessary dimension to queer theory by grounding it in questions of how we navigate everyday life. Mapping Desire extends the notion of queer beyond the practices of bodies in the bedroom and examine the ways that sexuality is inscribed on the body and in the landscape..
–parachute

Mapping Desire, with its invaluable bibliography, is an important new resource in expanding the debate on the correlation between sexual identity and the multifaceted realms of space.
–Lambda Book Report

About the Author

David Bell is Research Fellow and Gill Valentine is Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; annotated edition edition (April 26, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415111641
• ISBN-13: 978-0415111645
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 7.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,684,900 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)