Places of Tenderness and Heat
Abstrak
This book is a ground-level exploration of queer St. Petersburg at the fin-de-siècle. The book takes us through busy shopping arcades, bathhouses, and public urinals to show how queer men routinely met and socialized. It reconstructs the milieu that enabled them to navigate a city full of risk and opportunity. Focusing on a non-Western, unexplored, and fragile form of urban modernity, the book reconstructs a broad picture of queer sociability. In addition to drawing on explicitly recorded incidents that led to prosecution or medical treatment, the book investigates the many encounters that escaped bureaucratic surveillance and suppression. In doing so, it reveals how queer men's lives were conditioned by developing urban infrastructure, weather, light and lighting, and the informal constraints on enforcing law and moral order in the city's public spaces. The book is an ambitious record of the dynamic negotiation of illicit male homosexual sex, friendship, and cruising, uncovering a historically fascinating urban milieu in which efforts to manage the moral landscape often unintentionally facilitated queer encounters.
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Olga Petri
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- 2022
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- 10.7591/cornell/9781501763779.001.0001
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