Places of Tenderness and Heat : : The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg /

Places of Tenderness and Heat : : The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg / / Olga Petri.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Petri, Olga,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (276 p.) :; 10 b&w halftones, 2 maps, 1 graph
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Transliteration, Translations, and Dates
  • A Note on Terminology
  • Introduction
  • 1. St. Petersburg and Its Familiar Strangers
  • 2. Policing Sex and Desire
  • 3. Queer Streetlife
  • 4. Bathing in the Queer City
  • 5. Cruising in the Pays du Tendre
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Key Sources
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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