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Before Wilde [[electronic resource] ] : sex between men in Britain's age of reform / / Charles Upchurch



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Autore: Upchurch Charles <1969-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Before Wilde [[electronic resource] ] : sex between men in Britain's age of reform / / Charles Upchurch Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
Disciplina: 306.76/62094109034
Soggetto topico: Gay men - Great Britain - History
Gay men - Great Britain - Social conditions
Men - Sexual behavior - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Homosexuality - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Sex - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Soggetto geografico: Great Britain History 19th century
Great Britain Social conditions 19th century
Soggetto non controllato: age of reform
british police
british society
changing perceptions
discussion books
early 19th century
early victorian period
economic changes
england
family changes
great britain
historical account
history buffs
history of sexuality
homosexuality
law changes
literary
national media
nonfiction
oscar wilde
perceptions of sex
political changes
queer theory
same sex attraction
same sex desire
sex between men
social perspective
western sexuality
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-264) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Understandings -- Part Two. Early Nineteenth-Century Changes -- Part Three. Implications -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: This book examines changing perceptions of sex between men in early Victorian Britain, a significant yet surprisingly little explored period in the history of Western sexuality. Looking at the dramatic transformations of the era-changes in the family and in the law, the emergence of the world's first police force, the growth of a national media, and more-Charles Upchurch asks how perceptions of same-sex desire changed between men, in families, and in the larger society. To illuminate these questions, he mines a rich trove of previously unexamined sources, including hundreds of articles pertaining to sex between men that appeared in mainstream newspapers. The first book to relate this topic to broader economic, social, and political changes in the early nineteenth century, Before Wilde sheds new light on the central question of how and when sex acts became identities.
Titolo autorizzato: Before Wilde  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-94358-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910779756703321
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