Queer London : perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 1918-1957 / Matt Houlbrook.
Series: Chicago series on sexuality, history, and societyPublication details: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2005.Description: xii, 384 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:- 0226354601
- 9780226354620
- 0226354628 (pbk.)
- 306.76/62/094210904 22
- HQ76.2. G72L655 2005
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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Includes bibliographical references 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.