Queer London
Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957
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
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