The Routledge Handbook of Sexualities and Space explores how sexualities, genders, and space shape one another across everyday life, institutions, politics, and environments. Bringing together contributions from scholars working across geography, architecture, planning, sociology, anthropology, gender and sexuality studies, and related fields, the volume reflects the interdisciplinary character of research on sexualities and space while foregrounding the importance of spatial thinking for understanding sexual and gendered lives.
Organised into seven thematic sections, this handbook explores sites and infrastructures, economies and sexualities, technologies, sexualities, and space, practices and relations, subjects and subjectivities, transnational negotiations, and crises and resistances. Rather than solely following a conventional thematic structure, the collection adopts an innovative keyword approach, inviting contributors to examine concepts, practices, objects, and subjectivities that open up new ways of engaging with the spatial dimensions of sexualities and genders. Across diverse geographical contexts and theoretical perspectives, the chapters engage with established debates while highlighting emerging questions and underexplored areas of scholarship. Together, they provide readers with an accessible introduction to the field and a broad overview of contemporary research on sexualities, genders, and space.
This handbook will be of interest to scholars and students working in geography, gender and sexuality studies, sociology, anthropology, architecture, planning, urban studies, cultural studies, political science, social sciences, and related disciplines. It will be suitable for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, as well as for researchers seeking an overview of contemporary debates and developments in the interdisciplinary study of sexualities, genders, and space. It will also appeal to practitioners, policymakers, and activists concerned with questions of gender, sexuality, inequality, and spatial justice.
