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Queer London : perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 1918-1957
- Author
- Houlbrook, Matt.
- Title
- Queer London : perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 1918-1957 / Matt Houlbrook.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.
- Description
- xii, 384 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip057/2005004166.html
- Series
- The Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-363) and index.
- Contents
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- 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.
- Kinsey subjects
- Homosexuality history. Homosexuality--Male--England--London.
- ISBN
- 0226354601 (cloth : alk. paper)