Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Lynda Johnston is associate professor in the Department of Geography, Tourism and Environmental Planning at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Robyn Longhurst is professor in the Department of Geography, Tourism, and Environmental Planning at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Introduction: Geography, Bodies, Sex, and Gender
Chapter 1: "The Geography Closest In": The Body
Chapter 2: At Home with Sex
Chapter 3: Communities: A Sense of Belonging
Chapter 4: "Sex and the City"
Chapter 5: Rural Erotics
Chapter 6: Nations and National Identity
Chapter 7: Global Intimacies
Conclusion
Lynda Johnston and Robyn Longhurst’s Space, Place, and Sex weaves together the intellectual fruits of the 1990s, highlighting on-going conceptual trajectories as they develop in the 2000s, to demonstrate that sex, sexuality, and gender, on the one hand, and place and space, on the other, are necessarily intimately entwined. . . . While this book is theory-rich, it is exceptionally accessible, with chapters building theory into case study from the ground up. . . . This book will be a valuable read to the comparatively uninitiated with regard to geographies of sexualities because of its accessible, targeted use of theory and case study. It will also be invaluable to feminists, cultural geographers, gender researchers, and queer theorists, as a foundation work outlining future directions in research that does justice to both place and sexualities.
— Women's Studies Journal
The authors traverse a range of spaces from the body to the globe in a highly accessible and engaging text. . . . Whether considered alone or as a collection of tightly connected contributions, each chapter in the book mixes original research with critical reviews of existing literature to present a well written and carefully nuanced argument. . . . While the focus of the book might be geographies of sexualities, the authors introduce key geographical concepts such as place, space, scale and embodiment with a rare and refreshing clarity. For these reasons and more, this book should be read by both scholars and students alike and would serve as an excellent text on any course introducing Human Geography.
— New Zealand Geographer
With compelling attention to transnational space as well as the body, two of the finest geographers working on gender and sexualities have offered us a fascinating book. It will be of interest to social and cultural geographers, as well as queer theorists who need to enrich their geographical imaginations.
— MICHAEL BROWN, University of Washington
Johnston and Longhurst have produced a much-needed, accessible volume that intertwines sex, sexuality, and gender, moving from the body to the global. Sexual politics are shown to be integral to everyday lives, making this an important book not only for geographies of sexualities but geography itself, and one that should be on every human geography reading list.
— Kath Browne, University of Brighton
I use Space, Place, and Sex as the required reader for a second-year Gender Studies unit, and it’s been highly successful. Students have been really receptive to the book and its ideas, and it has provided a fantastic core for the unit’s development around spatiality.
— Alison Bartlett, University of Western Australia
Accessible to a range of readers who are interested in understanding what the discipline of geography has to offer studies of sex and sexuality
Provides clear examples of the ways in which space, place, and sex are inextricably linked
Uses geographical scale to highlight that all spaces and places are imbued with sexual politics
Covers diverse topics from asexuality to gay churches to rural bachelor-of-the-year competitions
Illustrates how sexual identity intersects with other identities such as ethnicity, class, and gender
Uses feminist and queer perspectives to understand sex, sexuality, and place
Draws on examples from around the world, including the United States, Britain, and Australasia