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SUMMARY:‘“It’s All Incest and Buggery Up There”: Same-sex Desire\, Northe
 rnness\, and a Different Way of Living?’
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DESCRIPTION:This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminar Series Feb-May 2016
 .\n\n\nCHSTM seminars will be held fortnightly on Tuesdays at 4pm in Roo
 m 2.57 Simon Building\, Brunswick Street\, Manchester\, M13 9PL https://
 goo.gl/maps/RTFk4 with tea and biscuits from 3.30pm. \nAll are welcome a
 nd please feel free pass this list on to interested colleagues.\n\n\n“It
 's all incest and buggery up there”: Same-sex Desire\, Northernness\, an
 d a Different Way of Living?'\n\nThis paper will explore region as a cat
 egory of analysis for understanding sexual cultures and the expression o
 f same-sex desire. For the most part\, historians of sexuality have igno
 red non-Metropolitan men\, assuming that such men did not have the same 
 freedom of opportunity to be found in the capital and that they have lef
 t behind few traces of their experiences. The fact that\, for the first 
 half of the 20th century\, most northern men did not have access to the 
 types of commercial and cultural venues as their metropolitan counterpar
 ts has been seen as evidence of repression and of a certain kind of prov
 incial ‘backwardness’. However\, this kind of reading obscures the fact 
 that\, for many men in the north\, same-sex desire was an acceptable way
  to find sexual and emotional release.\n\nWhile well-documented lives we
 re being led in London\, thousands of working-class men were having sex 
 with each other in the north without challenging their ideas of sexual ‘
 normality’. Laura Doan has written on how ideas of normality can be chal
 lenged and reconfigured and\, in terms of sexual experience\, a study of
  the north can add to this scholarship. By reworking an analysis of sexu
 ality in the 20th century to include region specific research\, the pict
 ure of how ordinary men fulfilled their desires becomes more both nuance
 d and more grounded in other forms of life experience such as work\, cla
 ss-culture and family life. This paper will examine these intersections 
 between sexuality\, region\, class and masculinity to offer up the begin
 nings of a new normal and a new way to interpret 20th British history mo
 re broadly.\n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Room 2.57\, Simon Building\, Manchester
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