Contents: ACME, Vol. 5, issue 2, 2006

ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies

Volume 5, Issue 2, 2006

Editors

Harald Bauder, Lawrence Berg, David Butz, Caroline Desbiens, Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, Sara González, and Rachel Pain

Special Issue:

Sexuality and Gender

Guest Edited by

Kathryn Besio and Pamela Moss

Contents:

Introduction to ACME Special Issue on Sexuality and Gender: Sexed, Unsexy and Gendered Spaces of Inversions and Reversals

112

Kathryn Besio and Pamela Moss

‘A Right Geezer-Bird (Man-Woman)’: The Sites and Sights of ‘Female’ Embodiment

121

Kathe Browne

On Not Living With AIDS: or, AIDS-As-Post-Crisis

144

Matt Sothern

Unsexy Geographies: Heterosexuality, Respectability and the Travellers’ Aid Society

163

Richard Phillips

‘I Do Down-Under’: Naturalizing Landscapes and Love through Wedding Tourism in New Zealand

191

Lynda Johnston

A Pornography of Birth: Crossing Moral Boundaries

209

Robyn Longhurst

Bazaar Stories of Gender, Sexuality and Imperial Spaces in Gilgit, Northern Pakistan

230

Nancy Cook

Chutes and Ladders: Negotiating Gender and Privilege in a Village in Northern Pakistan

258

Kathryn Besio

Representing ‘Cross-Cultural’ Relationships: Troubling Essentialist Visions of Power and Identity in a Thai Tourist Setting

279

Linda Malam

Loving….Whatever: Alienation, Neoliberalism and Pet-Love in the Twenty-First Century

300

Heidi Nast

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