Table Of ContentLesbian GeoGraphies
For those who think that issues such as the lack of lesbian and queer socialising
spaces are neither important nor deserve much theoretical and empirical
analysis from the Social Sciences, this book is a must read. Departing from the
intersections between queer and feminist geographies, and calling into question
the Anglo-American hegemonies in these debates, it includes a complex analysis
of resistant spaces and places, economic and social differences, power relations
and communities, among many other important topics. Bravo!
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For those who have gone before and those yet to come
Lesbian Geographies
Gender, place and power
Edited by
KaTh browne
University of Brighton, UK
edUarda Ferreira
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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Lesbian geographies : gender, place and power / by Kath browne and eduarda Ferreira.
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xv
1 Introduction to Lesbian Geographies 1
Kath Browne and Eduarda Ferreira
2 Seduced Victims and Irresponsible Mothers: Family Reactions to
Female Same-Sex Relationships in Hungary 29
Rita Béres-Deák
3 Lesbians at Home: Gender and Housework in Lesbian Coupled
Households 55
Carla Barrett
4 Contested Dyke Rights to the City: Montréal’s 2012 Dyke
Marches in Time and Space 71
Julie Podmore
5 The Gendered Politics of Absence: Homonationalism and
Gendered Power Relations in Tel Aviv’s Gay-Center 91
Gilly Hartal
6 ‘It’s a way for me to feel safe in places that might not really be
gay-friendly’: Music as Safe Lesbian Space 113
Lisa Hardie and Lynda Johnston
7 What Makes a Lesbian Salsa Space Comfortable?
Reconceptualising Safety and Homophobia 133
Stefanie Claudine Boulila
8 Мы не рокеры, не панки, мы девчонки – лесбиянки/Not
Rockers, Not Punks, We’re Lesbian Chicks: Staging Female Same
Sex Desires in Russian Rock and Pop 153
Katharina Wiedlack and Masha Neufeld
vi Lesbian Geographies
9 The Queer Film Festival as a Gender-Diverse Space: Positioning
the ‘L’ in GLBTIQ Screen Content 177
Akkadia Ford
10 Location, Location: Lesbian Performativities That Matter, or Not 201
Marta Olasik
11 All the Lesbians are White, All the Villages are Gay, but Some
of Us are Brave: Intersectionality, Belonging, and Black Queer
Women’s Scene Space in Washington DC 219
Nikki Lane
12 Putting Lesbians Geographies on the Geographical Map –
A Commentary 243
Marianne Blidon
13 Lesbian Geographies – A Commentary 249
Catherine J. Nash
Index 261
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
4.1 Radical Dyke March Route, 2012 79
4.2 The Radical Dyke March in Montréal’s Gay Village 81
4.3 The LGBT Women’s March 85
5.1 ‘It’s Worth Being Gay’ 100
5.2 ‘Is it Worth Being Gay?’ 101
5.3 ‘The Whole Country is Covered in Flags’ 103
Tables
6.1 Participants 117
6.2 Participants’ Song Choices 118
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Notes on Contributors
Carla Barrett is a PhD researcher in Geography at the University of Southampton,
UK. Her research looks at the division of domestic labour and childcare in LGBTQ
coupled homes in England, which she is investigating through the use of qualitative
interviewing. She also works as a Research Officer at the University of Brighton
on the Liveable Lives project, which is exploring what makes life liveable for
LGBTQ people in the UK and India. Prior to beginning her PhD, Carla completed
her BA in Geography at the University of Southampton. She has worked as a
Teaching Assistant on undergraduate courses in Human Geography, which has
included delivering lectures and seminars as well as teaching on two field courses
in Amsterdam. She is an active member of the University of Southampton’s LGBT
Research Community, administering and contributing to their website. More
broadly, Carla’s research interests include geographies of sexuality and gender,
geographies of home, children’s geographies and queer geographies.
Rita Béres-Deák is a cultural anthropologist and LGBTQ activist in Hungary.
She received her BA in Cultural Anthropology at ELTE Budapest University in
2001 and her MA in Gender Studies at the Central European University in 2002.
She is currently a PhD candidate at the Central European University in Budapest,
where her dissertation topic is the relationship between same-sex couples and their
family of origin. Her main research interest is LGBT communities, but she has
also done research on gender representations and people with disabilities. She is
involved in national and international LGBTQ activism.
Marianne Blidon is associate professor at Paris 1-Pantheon Sorbonne University
and associate researcher at INED (National institute of Demographic Studies).
She’s a feminist geographer, working on gender and sexualities. She founded and
led with Violaine Sebillotte a Certificate in gender studies at Sorbonne University.
She is the first French geographer to achieve a PhD on the geography of sexualities
(‘Distance and meeting. Elements for a queer geography’). She has organised
several seminars and symposia on gender and queer geographies helping to
legitimise these topics in France. She founded with other social researchers a
free open access journal Genre, sexualité & société that she led during 8 years.
She is an editorial board member of the journal Gender, Place and Culture. She
has published several special editions of journals such as L’Espace Politique
and Echogéo.
