Queer London : perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 1918-1957 / Matt Houlbrook.

  • Houlbrook, Matt.
Date:
[2005], ©2005
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2005], ©2005.

Physical description

xii, 384 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Contributors

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-363) and index.

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.

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    TPO.43.AA9
    Open shelves

Permanent link

Identifiers

ISBN

  • 0226354601