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Erotic city : sexual revolutions and the making of modern San Francisco / Josh Sides

Sides, Josh,i1972- [Verfasser]

Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2009

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (292 pages) : Illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-274) and index

978-0-19-970339-5 ; 0-19-970339-6 ; 978-0-19-537781-1

 

San Francisco, Calif.  Sexualverhalten  Soziokultureller Wandel  Sexuelle Revolution  Geschichte 

 

Since the 1960s, San Francisco has been America's capital of sexual libertinism and a potent symbol in its culture wars. In this highly original book, Josh Sides explains how this happened, unearthing long-forgotten stories of the city's sexual revolutionaries, as well as the legions of longtime San Franciscans who tried to protect their vision of a moral metropolis. Erotic dancers, prostitutes, birth control advocates, pornographers, free lovers, and gay libbers transformed San Francisco's political landscape and its neighborhoods in ways seldom appreciated. But as sex radicals became more vi.