Queer London : perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 1918-1957 / Matt Houlbrook.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Chicago series on sexuality, history, and societyPublication details: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: xii, 384 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0226354628
  • 9780226354620
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.76/62/094210904 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ76.2.G72 L655 2006
Contents:
Introduction: This is London -- Regulation -- Geographies of public sex -- The pink shilling -- The baths -- A room of one's own -- "Piccadilly palare": the world of the West End poof -- "London's bad boys": homosex, manliness, and money in working-class culture -- "The heart in exile": respectability, restraint, and the city -- Sexual difference and Britishness -- Daring to speak whose name?: queer cultural politics -- Conclusion.
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Book Book Stonewall Non-Fiction HQ 76.2 HOU 2006 1 Available 2176411

Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-363) and index.

Introduction: This is London -- Regulation -- Geographies of public sex -- The pink shilling -- The baths -- A room of one's own -- "Piccadilly palare": the world of the West End poof -- "London's bad boys": homosex, manliness, and money in working-class culture -- "The heart in exile": respectability, restraint, and the city -- Sexual difference and Britishness -- Daring to speak whose name?: queer cultural politics -- Conclusion.

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