Places of Tenderness and Heat

The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg

Olga Petri

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English

Cornell University Press
15 June 2022

European history; History of other lands; Urban communities; Gay studies (Gay men)

Places of Tenderness and Heat is a ground-level exploration of queer St. Petersburg at the fin-de-siecle. 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.

Focusing 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.

Places of Tenderness and Heat is an ambitious record of the dynamic negotiation of illicit male homosexual sex, friendship, and cruising and uncovers a historically fascinating urban milieu in which efforts to manage the moral landscape often unintentionally facilitated queer encounters.

By: Olga Petri
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 907g
ISBN: 9781501763779
ISBN 10: 1501763776
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 15 June 2022
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Olga Petri is a Leverhulme/Newton Trust Early Career Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge. Follow her on X @olga_petri

Reviews for Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg

Principally of interest to students of urban studies and queer men's history in Russia. (Choice) Olga Petri takes a unique approach to the study of queerness in late Imperial Russia by examining the city of St. Petersburg as an important factor in shaping the sexual and romantic lives of queer men. This approach creates a highly nuanced study of the geography of the queer experience and the interaction among city officials, policemen, business owners, and queer men as they negotiated the extent to which homoerotic activity could take place in the public venues of the city. Her methodology offers a new way to approach research on subjects not readily visible in the historical record. (H-Net)