Alan Collins (ed.)

Cities of Pleasure

Sex and the Urban Socialscape
Herausgeber: Collins, Alan

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Produktbeschreibung

This book contains a collection of leading edge and accessible chapters that explore various connections between urban living, sexuality and sexual desire around the world. The key themes featured address a number of topical issues including: (i) the controversies and debates raging around the evolution, defining patterns and appropriate regulation of commercial sex zones and markets in the urban landscape (ii) how have gay pubic spaces, districts and "gay villages" emerged and developed in various towns and cities around the world? (iii) How do changing attitudes to and the usage of urban sexual spaces, as depicted in iconic television series such as "Sex and the City" and "Queer as Folk, " reflect the reality of working women's or gay men's changing life experiences? This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal "Urban Studies."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 180mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780415360128
• ISBN-10: 0415360129
• Artikelnr.: 22519900

Autorenporträt

Edited by Collins, Alan

Inhaltsangabe

1. Sexuality and Sexual Services in the Urban Economy and Socialscape: An
Overview Part 1: Commercial Sexual Spaces, Markets and Community Responses
2. Space, Risk and Opportunity: The Evolution of Paid Sex Markets 3. The
Changing Nature of Adult Entertainment Districts: Between a Rock and a Hard
Place or Going from Strength to Strength? 4. Cleansing the Metropolis: Sex
Work and the Politics of Zero Tolerance 5. The Risks of Street
Prostitution: Punters, Police and Protesters Part 2: Evolution and
Development of Urban Gay Spaces 6. Homosexuality and the City: An
Historical Overview 7. Urban Space and Homosexuality: The Example of the
Marais, Paris' 'Gay Ghetto' 8. Where Love Dares (Not) Speak Its Name: The
Expression of Homosexuality in Singapore 9. Sexual Dissidence, Enterprise
and Assimilation: Bedfellows in Urban Regeneration 10. Authenticating Queer
Space: Citizenship, Urbanism and Governance Part 3: Urban Sexuality 11. Sex
and Not the City?: The Aspirations of the Thirty-Something Working Woman
12. Queer as Folk: Producing the Real of Urban Space