Sex, Time and Place

Sex, Time and Place extensively widens the scope of what we might mean by 'queer London studies'. Incorporating multidisciplinary perspectives - including social history, cultural geography, visual culture, literary representation, ethnography and social studies - this collection asks new questions, widens debates and opens new subject terrain.
Featuring essays from an international range of established scholars and emergent voices, the collection is a timely contribution to this growing field. Its essays cover topics such as activist and radical communities and groups, AIDS and the city, art and literature, digital archives and technology, drag and performativity, lesbian Londons, notions of bohemianism and deviancy, sex reform and research and queer Black history.
Going further than the existing literature on Queer London which focuses principally on the experiences of white gay men in a limited time frame, Sex, Time and Place reflects the current state of this growing and important field of study. It will be of great value to scholars, students and general readers who have an interest in queer history, London studies, cultural geography, visual cultures and literary criticism.

Simon Avery is Reader in Modern Literature and Culture and Co-director of the Queer London Research Forum at the University of Westminster, UK.
Katherine M. Graham is Visiting Lecturer and Co-director of the Queer London Research Forum at the University of Westminster, UK.

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List of Contributors
Section 1: Framing Queer London
1. Structuring and Interpreting Queer Spaces of London
Simon Avery (University of Westminster, UK)
2. Queer Temporalities, Queer Londons
Katherine M. Graham (University of Westminster, UK)
3. Mapping This Volume
Simon Avery (University of Westminster, UK) and Katherine M. Graham (University of Westminster, UK)
Section 2: Exploring Queer London
4. London, AIDS and the 1980s
Matt Cook (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
5. Bigot Geography: Queering Geopolitics in Brixton
Emma Spruce (London School of Economics, UK)
6. Representations of Queer London in the Fiction of Sarah Waters
Paulina Palmer (Warwick University, UK)
7. Are Drag Kings Still Too Queer for London? From the Nineteenth-Century Impersonator to the Drag King of Today
Kayte Stokoe (Warwick University, UK)
8. Claude McKay: Queering Spaces of Black Radicalism in Interwar London
Gemma Romain (University College London, UK) and Caroline Bressey (University College London, UK)
9. The British Society of the Study of Sex Psychology: 'Advocating the Cultural of Unnatural and Criminal Practices'?
Leslie A. Hall (University College London, UK)
10. Cannibal London: Racial Discourses, Pornography and Male-Male Desire in Late-Victorian Britain
Silvia Antosa (University of Enna "Kore", Italy)
11. 'Famous for the paint she put on her face': London's Painted Poofs and the Self-Fashioning of Francis Bacon
Dominic Janes (Keele University, UK)
12. Mingling with the Ungodly: Simeon Solomon in Queer Victorian London
Carolyn Conroy (Indepent Scholar, UK)
13. Alan Hollinghurst's Fictional Ways of Queering London
Bart Eeckhout (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
14. Sink Street: The Sapphic World of Pre-Chinatown Soho
Anne Witchard (University of Westminster, UK)
15. Chasing Community: From Old Compton Street to the Online World of Grindr
Marco Venturi (University College London, UK)
16. Being 'There': Contemporary London, Facebook and Queer Historical Feeling
Sam McBean (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
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Index