Places of tenderness and heat : the queer milieu of fin-de-siècle St. Petersburg /

"The emphasis of this book is as much on the routine behaviors of queer men, ranging from informal socialization to outright sexual transgression, as it is about the efforts of constables, administrators, government officials, and sanitary inspectors to maintain moral order. Petri describes a s...

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Author / Creator: Petri, Olga, 1985- (Autor)
Format: E-book Elektroniczne
Język:English
Imprint: Ithaca, New York Cornell University Press 2022.
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Dostęp online:Click here for full text at Project MUSE
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Streszczenie:"The emphasis of this book is as much on the routine behaviors of queer men, ranging from informal socialization to outright sexual transgression, as it is about the efforts of constables, administrators, government officials, and sanitary inspectors to maintain moral order. Petri describes a surprisingly stable entente between illicit communion and municipal authorities' paternalistic ambitions"

Places of Tenderness and Heat is a ground-level exploration of queer St. Petersburg at the fin-de-siècle. Olga Petri takes us through busy shopping arcades, bathhouses, and public urinals to show how queer men routinely met and socialized. She 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, Petri reconstructs a broad picture of queer sociability. In addition to drawing on explicitly recorded incidents that led to prosecution or medical treatment, she investigates the many encounters that escaped bureaucratic surveillance and suppression. Her work 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.

Places of Tenderness and Heat is an ambitious record of the dynamic negotiation of illicit male homosexual sex, friendship, and cruising and uncovers a historically fascinating urban milieu in which efforts to manage the moral landscape often unintentionally facilitated queer encounters.

Deskrypcja:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 27, 2022).
Opis fizyczny:1 online resource (xx, 254 pages) illustrations, maps
Bibliografia:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1501763784
1501763792
9781501763786
9781501763793
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Olga Petri is a Leverhulme/Newton Trust Early Career Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge. Follow her on Twitter @olga_petri