Sex and the city of bachelors
Sporting guidebooks and urban knowledge in nineteenth-century Britain and America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7759166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip Howell (0000-0002-4673-6422, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 20-50 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ecumene (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0967-4608 • E-ISSN: 2058-3435 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/096746080100800102 |
| OpenAlex | W2001379502 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
Guidebooks to brothels and prostitutes flourished in mid-nineteenth century Britain and America, particularly in the great cities of London and New York. This paper treats such guides as a form of imaginative mapping, associated with a ‘sporting’ male culture of sexually predatory men and an ideal city of male sexual opportunity. Such guidebooks offered to their readers a particular form of urban knowledge, primarily through the construction of the persona of the ‘man about town’, holding out the promise of ordering the confusing realities of the sprawling nineteenth-century metropolis. However, the guidebook genre necessarily admits something of the anxieties, ignorance and vulnerability of the would-be men about town who made up its readers, and this paper concludes that this literature should be considered as an elaborate ideological fantasy, constraining as well as constructing masculine identities, rather than simply evidence for the confident male appropriation of public space
Ancient history · Appropriation · Art · Economic history · Fantasy · Humanities · Ideal (ethics) · Ideology · Ignorance · Literature · Persona · Political science · Sociology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Cultural History and Identity Formation · European history and politics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports and Physical Education Studies · Sports, Gender, and Society
Historical Geography, feminist research and the gender politics of the present
Scrutiny in the Modern City
Out of Somerset
Flash houses’
Bawdy City
History and philosophy of geography
Literary geography
The development of higher urban life’ and the geographic imagination
The Urban Public Space
Sex, life, death, geography
Flâneurie on bicycles
A Bourgeois Geography of Domestic Bicycling
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,65 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2021 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |