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The spiv and the architect : unruly life in postwar London /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hornsey, Richard Quentin Donald
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Homosexuality > England > London > History > 20th century.
Reconstruction (1939-1951) > England > London.
Urban policy > England > London > History > 20th century.
London (England) > Social conditions > 20th century.
London (England) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: social modernism and male homosexuality in postwar London
  • Reconstructing everyday life in the atomic age
  • The perversity of the zigzag: the criminality of queer urban desire
  • Trial by photobooth: the public face of the homosexual citizen
  • Of public libraries and paperbacks: the sexual geographies of reading
  • Life in the cybernetic bedsit: interior design and the homosexual self
  • Conclusion: city of any dream.