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

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Main Author: Houlbrook, Matt
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago and London : University of Chicago Press, 2005
Series:The Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society
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Table of 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.