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UNINA9910791946003321 |
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Autore |
Robinson Lucy (Professor of history) |
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Titolo |
Gay men and the left in post-war Britain [[electronic resource] ] : how the personal got political / / Lucy Robinson |
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Manchester, : Manchester University Press, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-78170-159-8 |
1-84779-233-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Collana |
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Critical labour movement studies |
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Soggetti |
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Gay men - Political activity - Great Britain |
Gay liberation movement - Great Britain |
Politics, Practical - Great Britain |
Great Britain Politics and government 1945- |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Politics and culture: homosexuality and the Left in post-war Britain -- Reporting change: law reform, homosexual identity and the role of counter-culture -- Gay liberation 1969-73: praxis, protest and performance -- The Left gets personal: identity, performance and the Left 1972-79 -- The next big thing: from Gay Left Collective to Greater London Council, paedophile identity and the state of the Left -- Confronting Thatcher: the Bermondsey by-election, lesbians and gays support the miners and AIDS activism. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book demonstrates how the personal became political in post-war Britain, and argues that attention to gay activism can help us to fundamentally rethink the nature of post-war politics. While the Left were fighting among themselves and the reformists were struggling with the limits of law reform, gay men started organising for themselves, first individually within existing organisations and later rejecting formal political structures altogether. Culture, performance and identity took over from economics and class struggle, as gay men worked to change the world through the politics of sexua |
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