ABSTRACT

It has long been recognised that the spatialisation of sexual lives is always gendered. Sexism and male dominance are a pervasive reality and lesbian issues are rarely afforded the same prominence as gay issues. Thus, lesbian geographies continue to be a salient axis of difference, challenging the conflation of lesbians and gay men, as well as the trope that homonormativity affects lesbians and gay men in the same ways. This volume explores lesbian geographies in diverse geographical, social and cultural contexts and presents new approaches, using English as a working language but not as a cultural framework. Going beyond the dominant trace of Anglo-American perspectives of research in sexualities, this book presents research in a wide range of countries including Australia, Argentina, Israel, Canada, USA, Russia, Poland, Spain, Hungary and Mexico.

chapter 2|26 pages

Seduced Victims and Irresponsible Mothers

Family Reactions to Female Same-Sex Relationships in Hungary

chapter 3|16 pages

Lesbians at Home

Gender and Housework in Lesbian Coupled Households

chapter 4|20 pages

Contested Dyke Rights to the City

Montréal's 2012 Dyke Marches in Time and Space

chapter 5|22 pages

The Gendered Politics of Absence

Homonationalism and Gendered Power Relations in Tel Aviv's Gay-Center 1

chapter 9|24 pages

The Queer Film Festival as a Gender-Diverse Space

Positioning the ‘L' in GLBTIQ Screen Content

chapter 10|18 pages

Location, Location

Lesbian Performativities That Matter, or Not

chapter 11|24 pages

All the Lesbians are White, All the Villages are Gay, but Some of Us are Brave 1

Intersectionality, Belonging, and Black Queer Women's Scene Space in Washington DC