Queer Presences and Absences

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Queer Presences and Absences: An Introduction

   1. Queer Presences and Absences: An Introduction

      • Yvette Taylor, Michelle Addison

      Pages 1-10

3. Queer Movements, Marginalities and Mainstreams

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. ‘Against the Dignity of Man’: Sexology Constructing Deviance During ‘Normalisation’ in Czechoslovakia

      • Kateřina Lišková

      Pages 13-30

   3. Community at the Backstage: Gays and Lesbians in the Czech Republic

      • Kateřina Nedbálková

      Pages 31-49

   4. Lesbian Lives and Real Existing Socialism in Late Soviet Russia

      • Francesca Stella

      Pages 50-68

   5. Identities and Citizenship under Construction: Historicising the ‘T’ in LGBT Anti-Violence Politics in Brazil

      • Jan Simon Hutta, Carsten Balzer

      Pages 69-90

4. Queer Mediations and (Dis)Locations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Liminal Subjects, Marginal Spaces and Material Legacies: Older Gay Men, Home and Belonging

      • Andrew Gorman-Murray

      Pages 93-117

   3. The Meaning of Home for Transgendered People

      • Youngsook Choi

      Pages 118-140

   4. Belonging: Lesbians and Gay Men’s Claims to Material Spaces

      • Mark Casey

      Pages 141-158

   5. ‘That’s Not Really My Scene’: Working-Class Lesbians In (and Out of) Place

      • Yvette Taylor

      Pages 159-177

   6. Queering the Meaning of ‘Neighbourhood’: Reinterpreting the Lesbian-Queer Experience of Park Slope, Brooklyn, 1983–2008

      • Jen Jack Gieseking

      Pages 178-200

5. Queer Presences and Absences: Everyday and Everywhere?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201

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   2. Present Absences: Hidden Geographies of Lesbian Parenting

      • Karina Luzia

      Pages 203-221

   3. ‘Queer’ and ‘Teacher’ as Symbiosis? Exploring Absence and Presence in Discursive Space

      • Max Biddulph

      Pages 222-240

   4. Organisation Studies: Not Nearly ‘Queer Enough’

      • Nick Rumens

      Pages 241-259

   5. Queerying the Public Administration in Italy: Local Challenges to a National Standstill

      • Chiara Bertone, Beatrice Gusmano

      Pages 260-278

6. Back Matter

   Pages 279-282

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This book explores changes and continuations in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer lives, identities and spatial practices in the 21st century from around the globe, using a range of methods to connect pasts, places and policies with contemporary times, linking individual and social presences (and absences) affectively and materially.

• community
• methods
• Nation
• organization
• politics
• socialism

“The book provides a platform for those stories often left untold or voices left unheard, shedding light on queer lives as everyday lives, performed within everyday spaces. … This publication is a timely reminder that there is a ‘persistent need to be attentive to inequalities across places and positions’.” (Valerie De Craene, INSEP – Journal of the International Network for Sexual Ethics & Politics, Vol. 4 (02), 2016) 'Drawing on original research, this elegant and accomplished book offers a nuanced account of queer lives, communities and politics. Focusing on cultures, places and experiences oft-neglected within mainstream gay scholarship, this collection significantly advances understandings of the relationship between sexual diversity, home-making and exclusionary processes of belonging within the contemporary world.' - Davina Cooper, Professor of Law & Political Theory, University of Kent, UK.​

• London South Bank University, UK

  Yvette Taylor

• Newcastle University, UK

  Michelle Addison

Carsten Balzer, Free University Berlin, Germany Chiara Bertone, University of East Piedmont, Italy Max Biddulph, University of Nottingham, UK Mark Casey, Newcastle University, UK Youngsook Choi, independent researcher Jen Jack Gieseking, City University of New York, USA Andrew Gorman-Murray, University of Western Sydney, Australia Beatrice Gusmano, University of Trento, Italy Jan Simon Hutta, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Kate?ina Li ková, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Karina Luzia, Macquarie University Sydney, Australia Nick Rumens, University of Bristol, UK

Policies and ethics