Queer Gardens
This essay explores the author's own identity in relation with his grandmother's garden, as well as the garden plans of several key garden designers. Gardens provide a safe, queer space, set apart from the normative gardens with their straight rows and meticulously controlled land. Queer g...
| Subtitles: | "Gardening as Social-Spiritual Practice. Special Issue Edited by Johan Roeland" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The University of North Carolina Press
2023
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Cross currents
Year: 2023, Volume: 73, Issue: 4, Pages: 377-390 |
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| Summary: | This essay explores the author's own identity in relation with his grandmother's garden, as well as the garden plans of several key garden designers. Gardens provide a safe, queer space, set apart from the normative gardens with their straight rows and meticulously controlled land. Queer gardens are about finding a way to relate to the world, a place on earth that means something to their creators, and their visitors, safe spaces in which to behave differently. They're quirky, willful, playful, expressions of the characters of their creators and gardeners. They stretch the idea of what a garden can or should be and in doing this, they inspire other designers. |
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| ISSN: | 1939-3881 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cross currents
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cro.2023.a923589 |