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DE-CENTRING SEXUALITIES An enormous amount of literature exists which explores and discusses sexuality in urban and ‘colonized’ spaces, but there is little which documents these issues in the marginal or ‘in-between’ places. These places have great significance with respect to representations and politics of sexuality, for it is in these spaces that hegemonic sexualities may be least stable. De-centring Sexualities: Politics and Representations Beyond the Metropolis is an exploration of material and metaphysical geographies of sexualities outside of the urban arena. The ‘marginal’ sexualities are furthest from the movements that seek to liberate them, and sexual subjects are least stable in these marginal regions. The book explores these issues in four parts: Non-metropolitan Sexualities; Beyond the Metropolis; Deconstructing Metropolitan Models; and Devolving Sexualities. The strong team of contributors from a range of different fields (including cultural studies, literature and history), investigate themes ranging from religion, to hierarchies of power, constructions of rural sexualities, politics of pastoral representation and sexual persecution. CRITICAL GEOGRAPHIES Edited by Tracey Skelton, Lecturer in International Studies, Nottingham Trent University, and Gill Valentine, Professor of Geography, The University of Sheffield. This series offers cutting-edge research organised into four themes of concepts, scale, transformations and work. It is aimed at upper-level undergraduates, research students and academics, and will facilitate inter-disciplinary engagement between geography and other social sciences. It provides a forum for the innovative and vibrant debates which span the broad spectrum of this discipline. 1. MIND AND BODY SPACES Geographies of illness, impairment and disability Edited by Ruth Butler and Hester Parr 2. EMBODIED GEOGRAPHIES Spaces, bodies and rites of passage Edited by Elizabeth Kenworthy Teather 3. LEISURE/TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES Practices and geographical knowledge Edited by David Crouch 4. CLUBBING Dancing, Ecstasy, Vitality Ben Malbon 5. ENTANGLEMENTS OF POWER Geographies of domination/resistance Edited by Joanne Sharp, Paul Routledge, Chris Philo and Ronan Paddison 6. DE-CENTRING SEXUALITIES Politics and Representations Beyond the Metropolis Edited by Richard Phillips, Diane Watt and David Shuttleton 7. GEOPOLITICAL TRADITIONS Critical Histories of a Century of Political Thought Edited by Klaus Dodds and David Atkinson 8. CHILDREN’S GEOGRAPHIES Playing, Living, Learning Edited by Sarah L Holloway and Gill Valentine 9. THINKING SPACE Edited by Mike Crang and Nigel Thrift 10. ANIMAL SPACES, BEASTLY PLACES New Geographies of Human–Animal Relations Edited by Chris Philo ad Chris Wilbert iii DE-CENTRING SEXUALITIES Politics and representations beyond the metropolis Edited by Richard Phillips, Diane Watt and David Shuttleton London and New York First published 2000 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 2000 Richard Phillips, Diane Watt and David Shuttleton All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-203-98063-8 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-415-19465-2 (hbk) ISBN 0-415-19466-0 (pbk) CONTENTS Notes on contributors viii Acknowledgements x Introduction 1 RICHARD PHIILLIPS AND DIANE WATT PART I Non-metropolitan sexualities 17 1 The production of gay and the return of power 19 ALAN SINFIELD 2 Marginality on the tropic 35 DENNIS ALTMAN 3 Region, religion and sexuality: pilgrim through this barren 47 land KATE CHEDGZOY 4 Margins of the city: towards a dialectic of suburban desire 63 BARRY LANGFORD PART II Beyond the metropolis 79 5 Eroticizing the rural 81 DAVID BELL 6 Imagined geographies and sexuality politics: the city, the 101 country and the age of consent RICHARD PHILLIPS 7 The queer politics of gay pastoral 123 DAVID SHUTTLETON 8 Skirting the margins: Anne Lister, self-representation and 145 lesbian identity in early nineteenth-century Yorkshire ANIRA ROWANCHILD PART III Deconstructing metropolitan models 159 9 Marginalization and resistance: lesbians in Mexico 161 SUE WILLMAN vii 10 Remapping same-sex desire: queer writing and culture in the 179 American heartland WILLIAM J.SPURLIN 11 Getting your kicks on Route 66!: stories of gay and lesbian 195 life in rural America, c. 1950–1970s ANGELIA R.WILSON 12 Mapping decolonization of male homoerotic space in 213 Pacific Canada GORDON BRENT INGRAM PART IV Devolving sexualities 235 13 Devolutionary desires 237 LYNNE PEARCE 14 On the borders of allegiance: identity politics in Ulster 253 VINCENT QUINN 15 Transgression in Glasgow: a poet coming to terms 273 EDWIN MORGAN Author index 287 Subject index 293 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Dennis Altman is senior lecturer at La Trobe University, Melbourne. His many books include The Homosexualisation of America (l982), AIDS and the New Puritanism (1986), Homosexual Oppression and Liberation (1971) and Defying Gravity (1996). David Bell is senior lecturer in cultural studies at Staffordshire University. His publications include Mapping Desire (1995) and Consuming Geographies (1997) (both co-edited). He is also the co-author of The Sexual Citizen (2000) and co- editor of a Cybercultures Reader (2000). Kate Chedgzoy is senior lecturer in English at the University of Warwick. She is the co-editor of a number of books about gender and sexuality in early modern culture, and the author of Shakespeare’s Queer Children: Sexual Politics and Contemporary Culture (1996). Gordon Brent Ingram is a queer activist and environmental designer, who has made his home outside of Vancouver, San Francisco and Rome. He is the editor of Queers in Space: Communities/ Public Places/ Sites of Resistance (1997), and an associate lecturer at the University of British Columbia. Barry Langford is lecturer in Film and Television Studies in the Department of Media and Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published on film and the Holocaust, and is currently writing a book on media, identity and urban space. Edwin Morgan is an internationally acclaimed Scottish poet. His recent publications include Collected Poems (1990), Sweeping out the Dark (1994), Collected Translations (1996) and Virtual and Other Realities (1997). Lynne Pearce is senior lecturer in English at Lancaster University. She has published extensively on women’s writing and feminist theory, most recently in Devolving Identities: Feminist Readings in Nation, Class and Region (1999). Richard Phillips lectures in Geography at Salford University. His publications include Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure (1997). He is currently writing a book about the cultural politics of decolonization. Vincent Quinn lectures in English at the University of Sussex. His publications include Luxurious Sexualities (1997), an edition of Textual Practice which he co- ix edited, and numerous essays in the fields of literary criticism and gay and lesbian studies. Anira Rowanchild is a tutor in Literature at the Open University, and a long- time activist in lesbian and feminist politics in the border counties of England and Wales. David Shuttleton lectures in English and Film at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He has published on eighteenth-century and modern literature, and is the author of Queer Pastoral: Nature, Homosexuality and Modernity (forthcoming). Alan Sinfield is Professor of English at Sussex University. His publications include The Wilde Century (1994), Cultural Politics/Queer Reading, Literature, Politics and Culture in Post-war Britain, and Gay and After (1998). William J.Spurlin is based at Columbia University, New York. His publications include Reclaiming the Heartland: Lesbian and Gay Voices from the Midwest (1996). Diane Watt is senior lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She has published an edited collection and a book, both about women’s writing and history. She has also written a number of articles about gender and sexuality, and recently contributed to Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender and Sexuality (1997). Sue Willman is a legal practitioner in London, specializing in equality and human rights cases. She is also a freelance journalist, whose essays on travel and sexuality have appeared in Diva and numerous other publications. Angelia R.Wilson is the author of Below the Belt: Sexuality, Religion and the American South (forthcoming), the editor of A Simple Matter of Justice? (1994) and the co-editor with Joseph Bristow of Activating Theory. She is senior lecturer in the School of Social Policy at the University of Manchester. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to express our gratitude to the Departments of Geography and English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth,