Sexualities, Spaces and Leisure Studies

Jayne Caudwell teaches socio-cultural approaches to sport and leisure at the University of Brighton. She is editor of Sport, Sexualities and Queer/Theory and Women’s Football in the UK: Continuing with Gender Analyses.Kath Browne teaches social and cultural geographies at the University of Brighton. She is co-editor of Queer Methodologies and Geographies of Sexualities and co-author of Queer Spiritual Spaces.

• 1. Introduction: Sexy spaces: geography and leisure intersectionalities 2. ‘Does your boyfriend know you’re here?’ The spatiality of homophobia in men’s football culture in the UK 3. Queering skiing and camping up nature in Queenstown: Aotearoa New Zealand's Gay Ski Week 4. Lesbian visibility and the politics of covering in women’s basketball game spaces 5. ‘We will show you Berlin’: space, leisure, flânerie and sexuality 6. We are here to party? Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans leisurescapes beyond commercial gay scenes 7. ‘Fornicating on floats’? The cultural politics of the Sydney Mardi Gras Parade beyond the metropolis 8. A ‘sexy space’ for women? Heterosexual women’s experiences of a male strip show venue 9. ‘Sexercise’: working out heterosexuality in Jane Fonda’s fitness books

"This is a well put-together volume which will not only make a worthy contribution to academic libraries, but also cement further interdisciplinary research among leisure studies, geography and sexuality within the academy."– Jonah Bury, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS), University of Bristol, UK, published in Annals of Leisure Research