02769nam 2200589Ia 450 991045553750332120200520144314.01-282-32882-497866123288240-19-970339-6(CKB)1000000000807960(EBL)472082(OCoLC)496017615(SSID)ssj0000337341(PQKBManifestationID)11278196(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337341(PQKBWorkID)10289511(PQKB)10087018(MiAaPQ)EBC472082(Au-PeEL)EBL472082(CaPaEBR)ebr10346402(CaONFJC)MIL232882(EXLCZ)99100000000080796020090206d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrErotic city[electronic resource] sexual revolutions and the making of modern San Francisco /Josh SidesNew York Oxford University Pressc20091 online resource (303 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-987406-9 0-19-537781-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Introduction: Fred Methner's Street; 1 What's Become of the Paris of the West?; 2 Sex Radicals and Captive Pedestrians; 3 When the Streets Went Gay; 4 The Unspoken Sexuality of Golden Gate Park; 5 Taking Back the Streets of San Francisco; 6 The Many Legacies of AIDS; 7 Newcomers, New Revolutionaries, and New Spaces; Epilogue: Where the Wild Things Still Are; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Archival Sources; Notes; IndexSince the 1960's, 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 moreSex customsCaliforniaSan FranciscoHistorySexCaliforniaSan FranciscoHistoryElectronic books.Sex customsHistory.SexHistory.306.77097946Sides Josh1972-958770MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455537503321Erotic city2172429UNINA