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Queer Cities, Queer Cultures Europe since 1945

Evans, Jennifer V. Cook, Matt
Innbundet / 2014 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781441141903
Publisert
2014-08-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Vekt
628 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
328

Redaktør
Evans, Jennifer V.
Cook, Matt

Om bidragsyterne

Matt Cook is Senior Lecturer in History and Gender Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, and co-director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre.

Queer Cities, Queer Cultures Europe since 1945

Evans, Jennifer V. Cook, Matt
Innbundet / 2014 / Engelsk
Evans, Jennifer V. Cook, Matt
Innbundet / 2014 / Engelsk
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Cook and Evans' anthology offers a rich analytic assemblage of urban queer culture in Europe from 1945 to the present time ... This (reasonably priced) anthology serves as sound multidisciplinary textbook for students and scholars who want to gain multifaceted historical understandings of the dynamic interrelationships between queer, space and sociability in urban Europe and the intrinsically ambivalent and shifting mindsets about queer citizenship.

- Martin Zebracki, University of Leeds, UK, Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography

Despite different approaches, each contributor provides an informative narrative that identifies key factors in a city’s queer history: e.g., the memorialization of Nazi persecution of gays in Berlin, the fallout of the ‘sexual revolution’ and Amsterdam’s reputation as a tolerant ‘gay capital,’ the mixing of Western secular and Muslim cultures in Istanbul, and life in Madrid as it moved from dictatorship to democracy … A strong collection and a good introduction to contemporary European queer history. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

- B. Lowe, Florida Atlantic University, CHOICE

Through a series of urban case studies, this book examines the articulation of particular subcultures and forms of expression with the broader stories we tell about postwar Europe and particular watershed moments. It considers queer life in the selected cities in relation to the advent and end of Cold War polarization, and considers the degree to which the iconic events of 1945, 1968, and 1989 influenced the social and sexual climate of the ensuing decades. It raises questions about the form and structure of the 1960s sexual revolution, and forces us to think about how we define sexual liberalization and where, how and on whose terms it occurs. The book also explores the role of America in shaping particular forms of subculture; the significance of changes in legal codes; modes of queer consumption and displays of community; the difficult fit of queer (as opposed to gay and lesbian) politics in liberal democracies; the challenge of AIDS; and the arrival of the internet.
Les mer
Part One - Iconic Cities / 1. London (Cook) / 2. Paris (Tamagne) / 3. Berlin (Evans) / Part Two - Liberal Cities / 4. Copenhagen (Edelberg) / 5. Helsinki (Sorainen and Mustola) / 6. Amsterdam (Hekma) / Part Three - Cities under Dictatorship / 7. Madrid (Cleminson and Domenech) / 8. Athens (Papanikllou) / 9. Lisbon (Higgs) / 10. Belgrade (Velikovic) / Part Four - Out in the Cold / 11. Moscow (Healey) / 12. Prague (Schindler) / 13. Ljubljana (Kuhar) / 14. Budapest (Takacs) / Part Five - Border Cities / 15. Istanbul (Poole) / 16. Haifa (Livne) / Postscript - Cyber Cities (Boellstorff).
Les mer
How city-specific identities and subcultures tap into wider European conceptions of lesbian, gay and queer culture.
Showcases key thinkers in the history of European sexuality.

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Cook and Evans' anthology offers a rich analytic assemblage of urban queer culture in Europe from 1945 to the present time ... This (reasonably priced) anthology serves as sound multidisciplinary textbook for students and scholars who want to gain multifaceted historical understandings of the dynamic interrelationships between queer, space and sociability in urban Europe and the intrinsically ambivalent and shifting mindsets about queer citizenship.

- Martin Zebracki, University of Leeds, UK, Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography

Despite different approaches, each contributor provides an informative narrative that identifies key factors in a city’s queer history: e.g., the memorialization of Nazi persecution of gays in Berlin, the fallout of the ‘sexual revolution’ and Amsterdam’s reputation as a tolerant ‘gay capital,’ the mixing of Western secular and Muslim cultures in Istanbul, and life in Madrid as it moved from dictatorship to democracy … A strong collection and a good introduction to contemporary European queer history. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

- B. Lowe, Florida Atlantic University, CHOICE

Through a series of urban case studies, this book examines the articulation of particular subcultures and forms of expression with the broader stories we tell about postwar Europe and particular watershed moments. It considers queer life in the selected cities in relation to the advent and end of Cold War polarization, and considers the degree to which the iconic events of 1945, 1968, and 1989 influenced the social and sexual climate of the ensuing decades. It raises questions about the form and structure of the 1960s sexual revolution, and forces us to think about how we define sexual liberalization and where, how and on whose terms it occurs. The book also explores the role of America in shaping particular forms of subculture; the significance of changes in legal codes; modes of queer consumption and displays of community; the difficult fit of queer (as opposed to gay and lesbian) politics in liberal democracies; the challenge of AIDS; and the arrival of the internet.
Les mer
Part One - Iconic Cities / 1. London (Cook) / 2. Paris (Tamagne) / 3. Berlin (Evans) / Part Two - Liberal Cities / 4. Copenhagen (Edelberg) / 5. Helsinki (Sorainen and Mustola) / 6. Amsterdam (Hekma) / Part Three - Cities under Dictatorship / 7. Madrid (Cleminson and Domenech) / 8. Athens (Papanikllou) / 9. Lisbon (Higgs) / 10. Belgrade (Velikovic) / Part Four - Out in the Cold / 11. Moscow (Healey) / 12. Prague (Schindler) / 13. Ljubljana (Kuhar) / 14. Budapest (Takacs) / Part Five - Border Cities / 15. Istanbul (Poole) / 16. Haifa (Livne) / Postscript - Cyber Cities (Boellstorff).
Les mer
How city-specific identities and subcultures tap into wider European conceptions of lesbian, gay and queer culture.
Showcases key thinkers in the history of European sexuality.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781441141903
Publisert
2014-08-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Vekt
628 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
328

Redaktør
Evans, Jennifer V.
Cook, Matt

Om bidragsyterne

Matt Cook is Senior Lecturer in History and Gender Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, and co-director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre.

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