In a Queer Place: Sexuality and Belonging in British and European Contexts
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Though some are weighed down with theory, and some are of dubious quality, the majority of the 11 essays of this collection offer useful new case studies of gay life in the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics include South Asian lesbians in Britain, sexual encounters in public toilets, 18th-century mollies, and French responses to the UK's Civil Solidarity Pact. The contributors teach English, European studies, Italian, Renaissance literature, law and social theory, mainly in the UK. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction11Queer Moods: the Life and Death of Charlotte Mew252The Well of Homeliness: South Asian Queers in Britain403A Queer Job for a Girl: Women Postal Workers, Civic Duty and Sexuality 1870-80504'Ladies' and 'Gentlemen': Location, Gender and the Dynamics of Public Sex735Cruising in Queer Street: Streetwalking Men in Late-Victorian London896The Queerness of Colonial Space: Giovanni Comisso's Travels with Fascism1107Queer Renaissance Bodies? Sex, Violence, and the Constraints of Periodisation1378Of Mollies: Class and Same-Sex Sexualities in the Eighteenth Century1559Post-Queer and Beyond the PaCS: Contextualising French Responses to the Civil Solidarity Pact17710A Queer Nation by Rights: European Integration, Sexual Identity Politics, and the Discourse of Rights207Notes on Contributors224Index227
