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We hope the following title will be of interest to you.
Gay
Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence
Christina B. Hanhardt
"Safe Space
is a pathbreaking book for the interdisciplinary fields of queer studies and
American studies. Offering a trenchant account of the stakes of gay (and
sometimes lesbian) claims to urban geographies, this carefully researched
history unsettles many of the heroic assumptions driving the current politics
of sexual identity in the United States. It will make a crucial intervention in
a number of scholarly and activist debates."—Siobhan B. Somerville, author
of Queering the Color Line: Race and the
Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture
"A wonderful book that bursts through the
usual boundaries of gay history. Christina B. Hanhardt weaves class, race, and
sexuality tightly together in her urban history of the past fifty years and, in
doing so, succeeds in upsetting much of the conventional wisdom about the gay
movement and gay politics. Her analysis implicitly calls for the revival of a
multi-issue, intersectional queer politics that challenges injustices of every
sort and sees them all as linked."—John D'Emilio, author of The World Turned: Essays on Gay History,
Politics, and Culture
"Christina B. Hanhardt's brilliant book
should be required reading for all those interested in how the LGBT movement's
politics have come to reinforce racialized governance logics and control of
economically and socially marginal populations."—Urvashi Vaid, author of Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race,
Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics
“A commendable revision of the LGBT story in
America. . . . A dramatic picture of a febrile movement that had a difficult
relationship with its competitors. The book further excels by demonstrating
this history through the experiences of LGBT people of color, transgender
individuals, and immigrants. This rich analysis serves as a useful primer on
why gay neighborhoods are at the epicenter of discussions about
gentrification.”— Publishers Weekly
“The book’s extensive coverage of LGBT
activism in the latter half of the 20th century illustrates how contemporary
socio-legal gains were made possible by resistance-fuelled, political
organising. What began as a gay backlash to victimisation soon became a
platform for resistance to state violence. . . . Overall, this is a fascinating
insight into lesser-known aspects of America’s gay liberation movement.”— Marian
Duggan, Times Higher Education
“This is a deep and intriguing study of what
neighborhood and safety have meant—and seemed to mean—to different facets of
the gay community at different times in its development in the period following
WWII. . . . While obviously written for an academic audience, Safe Space will be accessible to most
readers, and offers some insights into ways that gay spaces may not have been
quite what we thought they were.”— Kel Munger, Lit/Rant
"Hanhardt challenges commonly accepted
narratives about safe streets, LGBT identity, and intersections of visibility
and vulnerability. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and
above."— A. B. Audant, Choice
"Recommended both for its astute and
never simplified analyses of social movements as well as its cautionarily
optimistic political vision, Christina B. Hanhardt’s Safe Space is a necessary and welcome contribution to the field of
LGBT and Queer Studies."— Rachel F. Corbman,
Sociological Review
“Scholars and academics studying urban
spaces, as well as grassroots activists within and outside the LGBT community,
should take note of Hanhardt’s work. Her discussion of the emergence of LGBT
activist claims to the protection of property and of self and the ways these
protections became viewed as natural rights expected in American urban spaces
helps illuminate not only specific transformations within urbanized LGBT
populations in New York and San Francisco, but broader divisions which formed
in liberal activist groups after the 1960s.”—Geoffrey West, Planning Perspectives
“Against the fractured landscape of cities
characterized by uneven development, Safe Space is a clarion call for radicals
to recognize the common deterrents facing all those working for more just
cities. . . . Safe Space recognizes that claiming the city as an equitable
space for all will require a broader understanding of identity, its use as a
tool for development, and its latent potential as a site of resistance.”—Eric
Peterson , Jacobin
Winner, 2014
Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies
Since the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and
gay activists has been protection against street violence, especially in gay
neighborhoods. During the same time, policymakers and private developers
declared the containment of urban violence to be a top priority. In this
important book, Christina B. Hanhardt examines how LGBT calls for "safe
space" have been shaped by broader public safety initiatives that have
sought solutions in policing and privatization and have had devastating effects
along race and class lines.
Drawing on extensive archival and
ethnographic research in New York City and San Francisco, Hanhardt traces the
entwined histories of LGBT activism, urban development, and U.S. policy in
relation to poverty and crime over the past fifty years. She highlights the
formation of a mainstream LGBT movement, as well as the very different
trajectories followed by radical LGBT and queer grassroots organizations.
Placing LGBT activism in the context of shifting liberal and neoliberal
policies, Safe Space is a groundbreaking
exploration of the contradictory legacies of the LGBT struggle for safety in
the city.
Christina B. Hanhardt is Associate Professor of American Studies at the
University of Maryland, College Park.
Duke
University Press
December 2013 376pp 23 photographs,
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