Drunk with the glitter : space, consumption and sexual instability in modern urban culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Swanson, Gillian
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Subjects:	Great Britain > Social conditions > 1945- Sexual ethics > Great Britain > History > 20th century. Sex > Social aspects > Great Britain. Sex role > Great Britain > History > 20th century. Social change > Great Britain > History > 20th century. Great Britain > Moral conditions. Sociology, Urban > Great Britain.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

Introduction : urban modernity and sexual instability : space, movement and dispersal
'So much money and so little to spend it on' : sexual excitations and familial devotions
'The gratification of the moment ... the limit of their mental horizon' : eugenics, psychology and the 'problem girl'
'Shattered into a multiplicity of warring functions' : synthetic culture, disintegration and 'distractibility'
'A harlot hires a car' : prostitution, dispersal and displacement in the Wolfenden report
Homosexuality, seduction and psychosis : 'flying and drowning' with 'Lawrence of Arabia'
'Good-time girls' and a 'thoroughly filthy fellow' : sexual pathology and national character in the Profumo Affair.