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Backward Glances is an exploration of the history of male street cruising. Too often in discussions of urban space and interpretations of urban culture, streetwalking implies a rigid model for the way we inhabit the streets. Beginning with the simple premise that we all walk the streets differently, Mark Turner suggests that male cruising operates through encounter and connection rather than alienation, and that it is the defining experience of what it means to be modern.

Backward Glances is the first gay urban history of its kind, examining these issues across a range of cultural material, including novels, poems, pornography, journalism, gay guides, paintings, the internet, and fragments of writing about the city such as Whitman's notebooks and David Hockney's graffiti. It provides a new way of understanding what it means for a man to walk the streets of the modern Western city.

Backward Glances is aimed at all those interested in the culture of the city, queer cultural history and the appropriation of public space.

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Title Backward Glances: Cruising Queer Streets of New York and London
Author Mark W. Turner
Binding Paperback
Edition Ex Library
Pages 191
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Reaktion Books, London
Publication date November 3, 2004
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Table of Contents
ISBN 9781861891808 / 1861891806
Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
Dimensions 7.94 x 6.16 x 0.61 in (20.17 x 15.65 x 1.55 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Sex & Gender: Gay
- Topical: Lgbt
Category Gender Studies
Dewey Decimal Code 306.766

About the author

American author Mark Turner is Lecturer in English at King's College, University of London.

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