Queer London : perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 1918-1957 / Matt Houlbrook.
Material type: TextSeries: Chicago series on sexuality, history, and societyPublication details: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: xii, 384 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0226354628
- 9780226354620
- 306.76/62/094210904 22
- HQ76.2.G72 L655 2006
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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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