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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783833103321

Titolo

Queer sites : gay urban histories since 1600 / / edited by David Higgs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-134-72467-5

0-203-17129-2

1-134-72468-3

1-280-33249-2

0-203-02874-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HiggsDavid <1939->

Disciplina

305.38/96642

Soggetti

Gay men - History

Gay men - Social life and customs

City and town life - History

Public spaces - History

Urban parks - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-208) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Introduction; 1 Paris; 2 Moscow; 3 Amsterdam; 4 London; 5 Lisbon; 6 Rio de Janeiro; 7 San Francisco; Some suggestions for further reading; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

There are areas which can be described as gay space in that they have many lesbians and gays in the population. Queerspace: A History of Urban Sexuality, edited by David Higgs, offers a history of gay space in the major cities form the early modern period to the present. The book focuses on the changing nature of queer experience in London, Amsterdam, Rio de Janiero, San Francisco, Paris, Lisbon and Moscow. This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of extensive source material, including diaries, poems, legal accounts and journalism. By concentrating the importance of the c