Drugs, Pleasure, Sexuality and the Australian Space in Christos Tsiolkas’ Loaded and Kate Holden’s In My Skin
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: This paper draws on theories regarding the connection between pleasure and space in illicit drug use, and investigates the Australian socio-cultural understanding of this connection through a close reading of illicit drug use in Christos Tsiolkas' novel, Loaded, and Kate Holden's memoir In My Skin.This combination of texts -which illustrate the experiences of a gay youth and a prostitute set in the same Australian urban space in approximately the same period -also illuminates the ways in which illicit drug use is often understood as gendered and sexualised, as performed as such.Ultimately, this paper draws on the two texts to provide a greater understanding of the linkages between gender, sexuality, pleasure, spatial context and illicit drug use.
Author: Anna Dunkley
Language: English
Topic: Spatial and Cultural Studies
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2975977008