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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970697803321

Autore

Hubbard Phil

Titolo

Cities and sexualities / / Phil Hubbard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY, : Routledge, 2011

ISBN

1-135-17417-2

0-203-86149-3

1-135-17418-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Cities and towns - Social aspects

Sex customs

Social service and sex

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Cities and Sexualities; Copyright Page; Contents; List of case studies; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Introducing cities and sexualities; 2. The moral geographies of sex; 3. Domesticating sex; 4. Public sex; 5. On the town: pleasure and leisure in the nocturnal city; 6. Consuming sex: pornographies and adult entertainment; 7. World cities of sex; 8. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

From the hotspots of commercial sex through to the suburbia of twitching curtains, urban life and sexualities appear inseparable. Cities are the source of our most familiar images of sexual practice, and are the spaces where new understandings of sexuality take shape. In an era of global business and tourism, cities are also the hubs around which a global sex trade is organised and where virtual sex content is obsessively produced and consumed.Detailing the relationships between sexed bodies, sexual subjectivities and forms of intimacy, Cities and Sexualities explores the ro