Queer London perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 1918 - 1957

Introduction: This is London -- I: Policing -- Regulation -- II: Places -- Geographies of public sex -- The pink shilling -- The baths -- A room of one's own -- III: People -- "Piccadilly palare" : the world of the West End poof -- "London's bad boys" : homosex, manline...

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1. Verfasser: Houlbrook, Matt (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Chicago, Ill. u.a. Univ. of Chicago Press 2005
Schriftenreihe:The Chicago series on sexuality, history, & society
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: This is London -- I: Policing -- Regulation -- II: Places -- Geographies of public sex -- The pink shilling -- The baths -- A room of one's own -- III: People -- "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 -- IV: Politics -- Sexual difference and Britishness -- Daring to speak whose name? : queer cultural politics -- Conclusion.
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
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. [341] - 363
Beschreibung:XII, 384 S.
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
23 cm
ISBN:0226354601
0-226-35460-1
9780226354606
978-0-226-35460-6