From Nowhere to Everywhere: Lesbian Geographies

From Nowhere to Everywhere: Lesbian Geographies is an intelligent and powerful collection on lesbian space and geography (meaning the cities, countries and neighborhoods) in which lesbians are becoming more visible. This book explores visibility and geographical concepts of 'public' and 'private' space in areas such as the workplace, the home, universities, the street, and the neighborhood in relation to how it is identified by such things as dress, language, music, and many other vehicles that are used to define such relational spaces. For example, the reader will explore the multiplicity and diversity of lesbian communities which exist in Vancouver, Canada, and examine the different sorts of spaces that lesbians have created for themselves in East versus West Vancouver. This book shows how lesbians are attempting to bend and shape space as their own, through groups such as the Lesbian Avengers, Las Buenas Amigas, and the African Ancestral Lesbians. This powerful collection of essays marks a further step in the transformation in visibility of lesbian geographies and geographers.