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Queer Visibilities: Space, Identity and Interaction in Cape Town (RGS-IBG Book Series) - Hardcover

Tucker, Andrew

 
9781405183031: Queer Visibilities: Space, Identity and Interaction in Cape Town (RGS-IBG Book Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1405183039 ISBN 13: 9781405183031
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Combining current theory and original fieldwork, Queer Visibilities explores the gap between liberal South African law and the reality for groups of queer men living in Cape Town.

  • Explores the interface between queer sexuality, race, and urban space to show links between groups of queer men
  • Focuses on three main 'population groups' in Cape Town―white, coloured, and black Africans
  • Discusses how HIV remains a key issue for queer men in South Africa
  • Utilizes new research data―the first comprehensive cross-community study of queer identities in South Africa

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andrew Tucker lectures at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. He earned his PhD from the Department and has also held an Economic and Social Research Council of the UK Postdoctoral Research Fellowship there. He has spent several extended periods of time in South Africa for research.

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Queer Visibilities explores the gap between liberal South African law and the more dangerous reality for groups of queer men living in Cape Town. By examining the lives of queer men among the three major ‘race’ groups in Cape Town – whites, coloureds and black Africans - this illuminating new study shows how changes in South African law remain marginal to vast numbers of the city’s queers. The text also explores the inextricable links between the regulation and expression of queer sexualities and the histories of racial classification in the country. It argues that Western notions of ‘the closet’ fail to account for important distinctions between men who at times inhabit vastly different social worlds. Such distinctions, however, must be uncovered if the needs and wishes of diverse communities are to be understood. Queer Visibilities combines the most up-to-date theoretical arguments with extensive new field research to shed light on some important failures of the New South Africa – including the many hardships faced by black African queer men in the Cape Town townships and a ‘forgotten HIV epidemic’ caused by lingering homophobia and ignorance.

This important new book contributes valuable insights into the study of human sexuality and reveals how sexual discrimination remains a challenge that must be overcome for the true spirit of reconciliation to be realised in South African society.

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Queer Visibilities explores the gap between liberal South African law and the more dangerous reality for groups of queer men living in Cape Town. By examining the lives of queer men among the three major ‘race’ groups in Cape Town – whites, coloureds and black Africans - this illuminating new study shows how changes in South African law remain marginal to vast numbers of the city’s queers. The text also explores the inextricable links between the regulation and expression of queer sexualities and the histories of racial classification in the country. It argues that Western notions of ‘the closet’ fail to account for important distinctions between men who at times inhabit vastly different social worlds. Such distinctions, however, must be uncovered if the needs and wishes of diverse communities are to be understood. Queer Visibilities combines the most up-to-date theoretical arguments with extensive new field research to shed light on some important failures of the New South Africa – including the many hardships faced by black African queer men in the Cape Town townships and a ‘forgotten HIV epidemic’ caused by lingering homophobia and ignorance.

This important new book contributes valuable insights into the study of human sexuality and reveals how sexual discrimination remains a challenge that must be overcome for the true spirit of reconciliation to be realised in South African society.

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Verlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1405183039
ISBN 13 
9781405183031
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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