Closet Geographies: Geographies of Metaphor from the Body to the Globe
Is the closet just a metaphor? Closet Space provides a highly original account of the spatial metaphor of "the closet", and is the first geography text to focus on this important issue. Using a variety of research techniques and materials, the book explores the closet through texts including:\ * the oral histories of gay men in the UK and US\ * the sexualised landscape of a New Zealand city\ * the national census of Britain and the US\ * international travel guides and travelogues and refers...
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Is the closet just a metaphor? Closet Space provides a highly original account of the spatial metaphor of "the closet", and is the first geography text to focus on this important issue. Using a variety of research techniques and materials, the book explores the closet through texts including:* the oral histories of gay men in the UK and US* the sexualised landscape of a New Zealand city* the national census of Britain and the US* international travel guides and travelogues and refers to the work of Butler, Lefebvre and Foucault.
1. Epistemologies and Geographies of the Closet2. The Body in the Closet: Performativity, Space, and Coming-Out Narratives 3. Producing the Closet in Urban Space: Spatiality, Sexuality, and Capitalism 4. National Closets: Governmentality, Sexuality, and the Census 5. Worlding the Closet: Desire, Travel and Writing 6. Conclusion
