Sex, time and place : queer histories of London, c.1850 to the present /
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London ; New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Section One Framing Queer London; 1 Structuring and Interpreting Queer Spaces of London; 2 Queer Temporalities, Queer Londons; 3 Mapping This Volume; Section Two Exploring Queer London; 4 London, AIDS and the 1980s; 5 Bigot Geography: Queering Geopolitics in Brixton; 6 Representations of Queer London in the Fiction of Sarah Waters; 7 Are Drag Kings Still Too Queer for London? From the Nineteenth-Century Impersonator to the Drag King of Today; 8 Claude McKay: Queering Spaces of Black Radicalism in Interwar London.
- 9 The British Society of the Study of Sex Psychology: 'Advocating the Culture of Unnatural and Criminal Practices'?10 Cannibal London: Racial Discourses, Pornography and Male-Male Desire in Late-Victorian Britain; 11 'Famous for the paint she put on her face': London's Painted Poofs and the Self-Fashioning of Francis Bacon; 12 Mingling with the Ungodly: Simeon Solomon in Queer Victorian London; 13 Alan Hollinghurst's Fictional Ways of Queering London; 14 Sink Street: The Sapphic World of Pre-Chinatown Soho; 15 Chasing Community: From Old Compton Street to the Online World of Grindr.
- 16 Being 'There': Contemporary London, Facebook and Queer Historical FeelingBibliography; Index.