Geographies of Sexualities

<p>Focusing on locations as diverse as the rural southern United States Brazil Istanbul and South Korea this book advances our understandings about how lesbian bisexual and queer women navigate identity community and politics. It brings together international scholars whose work addresses how meanings about sexuality and place intertwine.</p><p>The chapters in this edited volume challenge the assumption that certain places are inhospitable to LGBTQ lives by examining the varied ways that expressions of same-sex sexualities manifest across contexts. They explore questions about how and why the spaces for lesbian bisexual and queer-identified women are shifting. They take us to spaces as varied as women-only exotic dance venues dyke bar commemoration events and queer-friendly college campuses. By doing so the scholars in this volume provide cutting-edge rigorous and interdisciplinary insights about what queer spaces might look like in the future.</p><p>This book will be valuable to students and scholars interested in Sociology Gender Studies Geography and LGBTQ Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the <i>Journal of Lesbian Issues</i>.</p>