The spiv and the architect [electronic resource] : unruly life in postwar London / Richard Hornsey.
By: Hornsey, Richard Quentin Donald.
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BookPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010Description: 310 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Homosexuality -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century | Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- England -- London | Urban policy -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century | London (England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century | London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 363.4/90942109045 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-291) and index.
Introduction: social modernism and male homosexuality in postwar London -- Reconstructing everyday life in the atomic age -- The perversity of the zigzag: the criminality of queer urban desire -- Trial by photobooth: the public face of the homosexual citizen -- Of public libraries and paperbacks: the sexual geographies of reading -- Life in the cybernetic bedsit: interior design and the homosexual self -- Conclusion: city of any dream.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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