Queer London : perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 1918-1957
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago and London :
University of Chicago Press,
2005
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| 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.