{"product_id":"places-of-tenderness-and-heat-9781501763779","title":"Places of Tenderness and Heat","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlaces of Tenderness and Heat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a ground-level exploration of queer St. Petersburg at the fin-de-siècle.\u003c\/b\u003e Olga Petri takes us through busy shopping arcades, bathhouses, and public urinals to show how queer men routinely met and socialized. She reconstructs the milieu that enabled them to navigate a city full of risk and opportunity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on a non-Western, unexplored, and fragile form of urban modernity, Petri reconstructs a broad picture of queer sociability. In addition to drawing on explicitly recorded incidents that led to prosecution or medical treatment, she investigates the many encounters that escaped bureaucratic surveillance and suppression. Her work reveals how queer men''s lives were conditioned by developing urban infrastructure, weather, light and lighting, and the informal constraints on enforcing law and moral order in the city''s public spaces. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlaces of Tenderness and Heat\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious record of the dynamic negotiation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrincipally of interest to students of urban studies and queer men's history in Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409359479127,"sku":"9781501763779","price":36.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501763779.jpg?v=1730506544","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/places-of-tenderness-and-heat-9781501763779","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}