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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
xii, 384 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Bailey 755: Dust jacket. From the library of Laura Bailey.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 27, 2005
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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