Queer Presences and Absences

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Queer Presences and Absences: An Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
‘Against the Dignity of Man’: Sexology Constructing Deviance During ‘Normalisation’ in Czechoslovakia....Pages 13-30
Community at the Backstage: Gays and Lesbians in the Czech Republic....Pages 31-49
Lesbian Lives and Real Existing Socialism in Late Soviet Russia....Pages 50-68
Identities and Citizenship under Construction: Historicising the ‘T’ in LGBT Anti-Violence Politics in Brazil....Pages 69-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Liminal Subjects, Marginal Spaces and Material Legacies: Older Gay Men, Home and Belonging....Pages 93-117
The Meaning of Home for Transgendered People....Pages 118-140
Belonging: Lesbians and Gay Men’s Claims to Material Spaces....Pages 141-158
‘That’s Not Really My Scene’: Working-Class Lesbians In (and Out of) Place....Pages 159-177
Queering the Meaning of ‘Neighbourhood’: Reinterpreting the Lesbian-Queer Experience of Park Slope, Brooklyn, 1983–2008....Pages 178-200
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Present Absences: Hidden Geographies of Lesbian Parenting....Pages 203-221
‘Queer’ and ‘Teacher’ as Symbiosis? Exploring Absence and Presence in Discursive Space....Pages 222-240
Organisation Studies: Not Nearly ‘Queer Enough’....Pages 241-259
Queerying the Public Administration in Italy: Local Challenges to a National Standstill....Pages 260-278
Back Matter....Pages 279-282