Geographies of sexuality and gender down under. Special issue
Family ; Gender ; Homosexuality ; Identity ; Sexual behaviour ; Sexuality ; Social change ; Social space ; Society ; Space
In the 1980s geographers began to use post-structuralist ideas to rethink the interconnections between social identity categories and spatiality. During the 1990s some scholars began to explore how spaces are sexualised and gendered and how gender
,sex and sexuality are spatialised. There is a reconceptualisation of the sexualised and gendered qualities and experiences of space which moves beyond rights-based politics and the maintenance of heterosexual/homosexual, man/woman and masculine