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Sex, time and place : queer histories of London, c.1850 to the present /

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Sex, Time and Place extensively widens the scope of what we might mean by 'queer London studies'. Incorporating multidisciplinary perspectives - including social history, cultural geography, visual culture, literary representation, ethnography and social studies - this collection asks new...

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Other Authors: Avery, Simon (Editor), Graham, Katherine M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Subjects:
Gay people > England > London > History.
Sex > England > London > History.
Public spaces > England > London > History.
London (England) > Social life and customs.
Personnes homosexuelles > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire.
Sexualité > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire.
Espaces publics > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire.
Londres (Angleterre) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Social & cultural history.
British & Irish history.
Gender studies, gender groups.
History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Gay people
Manners and customs
Public spaces
Sex
England > London
Homosexualität
London
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.