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Sexual
Geographies by Frank Mort (Editor), Lynda Nead (Editor)
Sexual Geographies
explores the relationship between sexual regimes and identities
and the spatial mapping of London at a number of key moments since
the eighteenth century. The conceptual basis of this volume is
the active role played by the geography of the metropolis in the
representations and power relations of modern city life. The themes
addressed range from: the clandestine marriage market of the early
eighteenth century; the production and legal regulation of obscenity
in the Victorian city; masculinity and commerce in East London;
consumption and racial difference in the metropolis 1935-45; mapping
sexual London in the Wolfeden committee of the 1950s; to the sexual
topographies produced by the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales.
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