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- Title
The City as a Sexual Laboratory: The Queer Heritage of the Chicago School.
- Authors
Heap, Chad
- Abstract
This article documents the pioneering—and largely overlooked—sociological studies of sexuality undertaken by scholars at the University of Chicago during the first decades of the twentieth century. Focusing primarily on their investigations of a wide range of non-normative sexualities, including prostitution, cross-racial sexuality and homosexuality, it argues that these studies provided the foundation for a radical new understanding of sexuality that emphasized the social context and meaning of sexual practices and types, rather than their biological or psychological determination. Finally, it demonstrates the forgotten centrality of these studies to the establishment of the field of urban sociology by explicating the sexual subtext of several key concepts from the so-called Chicago School, including natural areas, concentric zones of urban development, mobility, social personalities and the marginal man.
- Subjects
HUMAN sexuality; SEX research; HISTORY of sociology; URBAN sociology; GAY people
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 2003, Vol 26, Issue 4, p457
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/B:QUAS.0000005052.77181.51