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Queer London : perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 1918-1957
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Queer London : perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 1918-1957 / Matt Houlbrook.
ISBN
0226354601 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Internet Archive collection.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Series
The Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-363) and index.
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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