A highly original account of the spatial metaphor of "the closet". Using a variety of research techniques and materials the book explores the closet through texts including oral histories, travel literature, Butler, Lefebvre and Foucault.

By tacking between metaphoric and material spaces and scales of the closet, and using a variety of research techniques and materials, this book provides a decidedly geographic extension of previous research on the closet, which has largely come from literary criticism and the humanities. While Closet Space augments the growing interest in sexuality and space specifically, its broad theoretical and empirical reach should interest scholars working in social theory more generally. Only contributor is Paul Boyle, University of Leeds, UK , who wrote chapter 4.