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Matt Houlbrook

Queer London

Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957

398 pages, 11 halftones, 1 map  6 x 9  © 2005
Series: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society

Cloth $29.00

ISBN: 9780226354606   Published September 2005

Paper $22.50

ISBN: 9780226354620   Published November 2006

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Terminology
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: This Is London
PART 1 POLICING
1. Regulation
PART 2 PLACES
2. Geographies of Public Sex
3. The Pink Shilling
4. The Baths
5. A Room of One’s Own
PART 3 PEOPLE
6. “Piccadilly Palare”: The World of the West End Poof
7. “London’s Bad Boys”: Homosex, Manliness, and Money in Working-Class Culture
8. “The Heart in Exile”: Respectability, Restraint, and the City
PART 4 POLITICS
9. Sexual Difference and Britishness
10. Daring to Speak Whose Name? Queer Cultural Politics
Conclusion
Appendix Queer Incidents Resulting in Proceedings at the Metropolitan Magistrates Courts and City of London Justice Rooms, 1917–57
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Subjects



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