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Queer Domesticities: taking queer history indoors

When:
July 1, 2015 @ 5:15 pm – 6:15 pm
2015-07-01T17:15:00+12:00
2015-07-01T18:15:00+12:00
Where:
Burns 2, Arts Building
University of Otago 95 Albany Street
North Dunedin, Dunedin 9016
New Zealand
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Angela Wanhalla

An open lecture by Matt Cook, who uses his latest book Queer Domesticities: homosexuality and home life in twentieth century London (Palgrave, 2014) to make a case for the importance of domestic space in the understanding and analysis of queer – and here queer male – desires and relationships. In a discussion of (amongst other) artists Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts, interior designer Oliver Ford, playwright Joe Orton, film-maker Derek Jarman, and a group of gay squatters, he explores the ways in which different men have contributed to and negotiated the contradictory but trenchant stereotypes of ‘domestic outlaw’ and ‘sissy home boy’. He argues that queer home lives provide rich material for the understanding of conflicts, overlaps and intersections of different identifications relating especially to gender, class, and nationality.

Matt Cook is Professor of Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London and co-Director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. He is also author of London and the Culture of Homosexuality (2003) and editor or co-editor of A Gay History of Britain (2007), Queer 1950s (2012) and Queer Cities, Queer Cultures (2014).

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