ISBN:
9781526101563
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Lewis, Brian British queer history : New approaches and perspectives
DDC:
306.766094109031
Keywords:
Homosexuality ; Great Britain ; History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This collection of essays takes stock of the 'new British queer history'. It is intended both for scholars and students of British social and cultural history and of the history of sexuality, and for a broader readership interested in queer issues. In offering a snapshot of the field, this volume demonstrates the richness and promise of one of the most vibrant areas of modern British history and the complexity and breadth of discussion, debate and approach. It showcases challenging think-pieces from leading luminaries alongside some of the most original and exciting research by established and
Abstract:
Cover -- British queer history -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: British queer history: Brian Lewis -- 1 Politics and the reporting of sex between men in the 1820s: Charles Upchurch -- 2 Naturalism, labour and homoerotic desire: Henry Scott Tuke: Jongwoo Jeremy Kim -- 3 Bricks and Flowers: unconventionality and queerness in Katherine Everett's life writing: Mo Moulton -- 4 'A peculiarly obscure subject': the missing 'case' of the heterosexual: Laura Doan
Abstract:
5 'These young men who come down from Oxford and write gossip': Society gossip, homosexuality and the logic of revelation in the interwar popular press: Ryan Linkof -- 6 Thinking queer: the social and the sexual in interwar Britain: Matt Houlbrook -- 7 'I conformed -- I got married. It seemed like a good idea at the time': domesticity in postwar lesbian oral history: Amy Tooth Murphy -- 8 The homosexual as a social being in Britain, 1945-1968: Chris Waters -- 9 Mr Grey goes to Washington: the homophile internationalism of Britain's Homosexual Law Reform Society: David Minto
Abstract:
10 Films and Filming: the making of a queer marketplace in pre-decriminalisation Britain: Justin Bengry -- 11 The cultural politics of gay pornography in 1970s Britain: Paul R. Deslandes -- Index
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