{"product_id":"places-of-tenderness-and-heat-the-queer-milieu-of-fin-de-siecle-st-petersburg-hardback-9781501763779","title":"Places of Tenderness and Heat; The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg (Hardback) 9781501763779","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePlaces of Tenderness and Heat\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eOlga Petri (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501763779\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 June 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e276 pages, 10 b\u0026amp;w halftones, 2 maps, 1 graph - 1 Graphs - 10 Halftones, black and white - 2 Maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrincipally of interest to students of urban studies and queer men's history in Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice) \u003cp\u003eOlga Petri takes a unique approach to the study of queerness in late Imperial Russia by examining the city of St. Petersburg as an important factor in shaping the sexual and romantic lives of queer men. This approach creates a highly nuanced study of the geography of the queer experience and the interaction among city officials, policemen, business owners, and queer men as they negotiated the extent to which homoerotic activity could take place in the public venues of the city. Her methodology offers a new way to approach research on subjects not readily visible in the historical record.\u003c\/p\u003e (H-Net)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlaces of Tenderness and Heat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a ground-level exploration of queer St. Petersburg at the fin-de-siècle.\u003c\/b\u003e 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 city full of risk and opportunity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFocusing on a non-Western, unexplored, and fragile form of urban modernity, Petri reconstructs a broad picture of queer sociability. In addition to drawing on explicitly recorded incidents that led to prosecution or medical treatment, she investigates the many encounters that escaped bureaucratic surveillance and suppression. Her work reveals how queer men's lives were conditioned by developing urban infrastructure, weather, light and lighting, and the informal constraints on enforcing law and moral order in the city's public spaces. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlaces of Tenderness and Heat\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious record of the dynamic negotiation of illicit male homosexual sex, friendship, and cruising and uncovers a historically fascinating urban milieu in which efforts to manage the moral landscape often unintentionally facilitated queer encounters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676668784920,"sku":"9781501763779","price":37.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/places-of-tenderness-and-heat-the-queer-milieu-of-fin-de-siecle-st-petersburg-hardback-9781501763779","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}