From Nowhere to Everywhere

Lesbian Geographies

Gill Valentine

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781560231325
• eBook ISBN: 9781317992998
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Explore how lesbians have become more visible in our society!This fascinating book traces the development of lesbian geographies throughout history and examines intangible and physical space that is defined by lesbians. Through intellectual and powerful essays and poems, From Nowhere to Everywhere reveals how lesbian identities and lifestyles today are becoming more publicly articulated in the urban and rural landscape.Throughout this valuable reference you will explore visibility and geographical concepts of "public" and "private" space in the workplace, the home, the university, the street, and the neighborhood and how this space is identified by such things as dress, language, music, and many other ways. You will gain an insider's look at the many facets of lesbian homes, communities, and neighborhoods, including:

• the multiple meanings of lesbian homes, in relation to race, class, religious, or ethnic identity, and as places of liberation and oppression due to harassment
• opposing views of lesbians and the myths and stereotypes of lesbians in the East-end and West-end of Vancouver
• how white, feminist anti-violence activism is being used in anti-oppression struggles
• a personal geography of harassment
• an exploration of feminist prototypes, (Salamander, Dryad, Soothsayer, and Virgin), and lesbian interpretations of these archetypes
• social support, coming out, and relationship satisfaction in lesbian couplesFrom Nowhere to Everywhere is a powerful collection of essays that marks a step forward in the transformation in visibility of lesbian geographies and geographers from nowhere and everywhere.

Index

AAG. See Association of American Geographers

Academic relationships, of lesbian researchers, 92–95, 97–99, 102

ACT UP, 65

Activism

anti-violence, 7, 65–68, 71–76

as cultural basis, 13, 16

regulation of, 7, 63–66, 71–76

transgression as, 63–66, 73, 76, 100

Advertisements

employment, 62, 71, 73, 75

personal, 50–51, 54

African Americans, perspectives of, 15, 17, 54–55

African Ancestral Lesbians for Societal Change, 5

Age, in lesbian identity, 54

AIDS, 90

Androgynes, 52–53

Anecdotes, per tourist road trip, 114–124

Animal names, as harassment, 86, 90, 92–93, 101

Anthropology, of identity formation, 81, 87–98

Anti-abortion movement, 122

Anti-feminism

gender hierarchy in, 65–68

high-profile events of, 67–76

Anti-male behavior, 62, 66, 71, 73–75

Anti-police behavior, 62, 66, 69–70, 74–75

Anti-violence activism

as feminist, 65–68

regulation of, 71–76

Association of American Geographers (AAG), 86, 92

Autobiographies, 81–85. See also Personal geographies

Bad girls, 42

Bars, 3, 20–21, 46, 116

Belonging, home as place of, 12–13

Bisexuals

discrimination of, 49, 103

in on-line space, 47–53, 55–58

term interpretation, 49, 55–57

Bodily harm, protection from, 101–102,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• About the Editor
• Introduction: From Nowhere to Everywhere: Lesbian Geographies
• Lesbian Living Spaces: Multiple Meanings of Home
• Flagrantly Flaunting It?: Contesting Perceptions of Locational Identity Among Urban Vancouver Lesbians
• The Virtual Spaces of Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Electronic Mailing Lists
• And Still, the Lesbian Threat: or, How to Keep a Good Woman a Woman
• "Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones": A Personal Geography of Harassment
• Road Trip Diary/Journal de Route: A n Extract from the Installation
• Index