Erotic city [[electronic resource] ] : sexual revolutions and the making of modern San Francisco / / Josh Sides

• Autore: Sides Josh <1972->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.77097946
• Soggetto topico: Sex customs - California - San Francisco - History; Sex - California - San Francisco - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Since 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 more
• Titolo autorizzato: Erotic city
• ISBN: 1-282-32882-4; 9786612328824; 0-19-970339-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455537503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II