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Queer domesticities : homosexuality and home life in twentieth-century London /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cook, Matt, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:Genders and sexualities in history.
Subjects:
Gays > Family relationships > England > London > History > 20th century.
Gay couples > England > London > History > 20th century.
Households > England > London > History > 20th century.
Domestic relations > England > London > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Beautiful homes
  • Introduction
  • Domestic passions : unpacking the homes of Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts
  • Queer interiors: from C.R.Ashbee to Oliver Ford
  • Queer families
  • George Ives, queer lives and the family
  • Joe Randolph Ackerley's "family values"
  • Outsiders inside
  • Remembering bedsitterland : Rex Batten, Carl Marshall and Alan Louis
  • Homes fit for homos : Joe Orton's queer domestic
  • Taking sexual politics home
  • "Gay times" : the brixton squatters
  • Derek Jarman's domestic politics
  • Bibliography
  • List of illustrations.