Sexuality and Gender at Home: Experience, Politics, Transgression

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Sexuality and Gender at Home is the first book to explore the meanings and experiences of home through the framework of sexuality. Looking at a broad spectrum of sexuality, gender and domesticity, it examines the many ways in which home is constructed, performed and experienced in relation to sexuality and gender. Considering identity issues such as age, class, ethnicity and gender, the authors problematize intimacy and question conventional ways of thinking about allegedly ‘private’ home space. Comprehensive introductions to each of the book’s three sections – on Intimacy and Home, Queering Home, Beyond Home – provide a coherent overview of the existing literature as well as additional historical and cultural context. Fourteen chapters present ground-breaking research and insights into sexuality, gender and home across culture, time and space. Written by academics from a range of subject disciplines, chapters are based on research covering countries including Australia, France, Sweden, the UK, the USA, Guyana, Israel and Singapore. This highly original text is the ideal starting point for anyone wishing to get to grips with the emerging field of sexuality, gender and home and will particularly appeal to researchers and students in anthropology, architecture, gender studies, sociology and human geography. Contents Title page Copyright page List of figures List of contributors Series preface: Why home? Preface References Introduction Experience, politics, transgression Structure of the book Note References Part One Making home Introduction: Making home References Chapter 1 Class, sexuality and home in interwar London 1 Kensington Palace Gardens 34 Gordon Square Kensal House Conclusion Notes References Chapter 2 Unhousing sexuality: Sexuality and singlehood in Singapore’s public housing Introduction ‘Shall we get married?’: Housing the nation, unhousing sexuality Bodies at home: Three single women in Singapore’s public housing Conclusion Notes References Chapter 3 Negotiating sexual relationships and alternative domesticities in shared households in England Introduction Shared living, home and family Negotiating intimacy in shared housing Towards multiple meanings and experiences of home and sexuality Acknowledgements Note References Chapter 4 Making a house a home: Children and the meanings of home among gay men in the United States1 Gay men and parenthood Do the right thing ‘We’re not gay anymore’ Home as a moral centre Notes References Part Two Queering home Introduction: Queering home References Chapter 5 F the U-Haul: Janet Flanner’s Paris and the varieties of lesbian domesticity Janet Flanner and Solita Solano: Friends and lovers Notes References Chapter 6 Queering the historic house: Destabilizing heteronormativity in the National Trust Nymans House and Gardens The Vyne Conclusion References Chapter 7 A bend in the river: Queer home and heritage in a house in Hammersmith1 Histories Queer heritage Notes References Chapter 8 The living room and sexuality: Lesbian homes as political places Introduction: Home, sexuality and anthropology Anthropological practice in Brighton and Hove Home as a political spatial landscape Home as an ideal social and moral place to understand group dynamics The plumber as the epitome of heteronormativity in daily practice at home The neighbours, home and sexuality Concluding reflections Notes References Chapter 9 Que(e)rying homonormativity: The everyday politics of lesbian and gay homemaking (Up)setting the (domestic) scene The problem with homonormativity Transformative domesticities and quiet politics Democratizing homemaking Notes References Part Three Beyond home Introduction: Beyond home References Chapter 10 Crossing the domestic threshold: LGBTQ-marketed tradespeople working in London’s homes Introduction Contextualizing the LGBTQ-marketed domestic trade network A distinct view into London’s living spaces Conclusion Notes References Chapter 11 Castle and cell: Exploring intersections between sexuality and gender in the domestic lives of men with trans identities and histories Something to write home about… An Englishman’s home is his castle Making yourself at home Conclusion Notes References Chapter 12 Relational persons of the home: Intimacy, transgressions and boundary-making Introduction Houses, roads and liming The lime – general and situated Women, ‘talk name’ and liming Communal spaces, respect and agency Boundary-making and the domestic Lucknee Domestic boundary-making Concluding notes Notes References Chapter 13 Recreational sex not-at-home: The atmospheres of sex work in Tel Aviv Recreational sexuality Moral geographies of sex: The spatiality of sex work The atmospheres of sex work in Tel- Aviv Conclusion Notes References Chapter 14 Letters home Folds: Queer address, time and the performance of knowing From queer homemaking to queer place-making: Failure, heritage and dispossession Notes References Index