ISBN:
9780230300699
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 209 Seiten
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Ill.
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22 cm
Edition:
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Genders and sexualities in history
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Queer 1950s
DDC:
306.76/62
Keywords:
World history
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Electronic books
;
Homosexualität
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
;
Homosexualität
;
Queer-Theorie
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Leading sexuality scholars explore queer lives and cultures in the first full post-war decade through an array of sources and a range of perspectives. Drawing out the particularities of queer cultures from the Finland and New Zealand to the UK and the USA, this collection rethinks preconceptions of the 1950s and pinpoints some of its legacies
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Queer 1950s: Rethinking Sexuality in the Postwar Years; Part I Representing; 1 The Long 1950s as Radical In-Between: The Photography of Herbert Tobias; 2 Nouveau Désordre : Diabolical Queerness in 1950s French Cinema; 3 Love 'Off the Rails' or 'Over the Teacups'? Lesbian Desire and Female Sexualities in the 1950s British Popular Press; Part II Living; 4 'Someone to Love': Teen Girls' Same-Sex Desire in the 1950s United States
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Cross-Generational Relationships before 'the Lesbian': Female Same-Sex Sexuality in 1950s Rural Finland6 Moral Panic or Critical Mass? The Queer Contradictions of 1950s New Zealand; 7 Warm Homes in a Cold Climate: Rex Batten and the Queer Domestic; Part III Thinking; 8 Sexology Backward: Hirschfeld, Kinsey and the Reshaping of Sex Research in the 1950s; 9 'Who Is She?' Identities, Intertextuality and Authority in Non-Fiction Lesbian Pulp of the 1950s; 10 Queer Profits: Homosexual Scandal and the Origins of Legal Reform in Britain
Description / Table of Contents:
11 Geeks and Gaffs: The Queer Legacy of the 1950s American Freak ShowBibliography; Index;
Description / Table of Contents:
List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction / Heike Bauer & Matt Cook -- The long 1950s as radical in-between : the photography of Herbert Tobias / Jennifer V. Evans -- Nouveau désordre : diabolical queerness in 1950s French cinema / Andrew Asibong -- Love "off the rails" or "over the teacups"? : lesbian desire and female sexualities in the 1950s British popular press / Alison Oram -- Living -- "Someone to love" : teen girls' same-sex desire in the 1950s United States / Amanda H. Littauer -- Cross-generational relationships before "the lesbian" : female same-sex sexuality in 1950s rural Finland / Antu Sorainen -- Moral panic or critical mass? : the queer contradictions of 1950s New Zealand / Chris Brickell -- Warm homes in a cold climate : rex batten and the queer domestic / Matt Cook -- Thinking -- Sexology backward : Hirschfeld, Kinsey, and the reshaping of sex research in the 1950s / Heike Bauer -- "Who is she?" identities, intertextuality, and authority in non-fiction lesbian pulp of the 1950s / Kaye Mitchell -- Queer profits : homosexual scandal and the origins of legal reform in Britain / Justin Bengry -- Geeks and gaffs : the queer legacy of the 1950s American freak show / Elizabeth Stephens -- Select bibliography.
Note:
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,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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