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Autore: |
Hornsey Richard Quentin Donald
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Titolo: |
The spiv and the architect [[electronic resource] ] : unruly life in postwar London / / Richard Hornsey
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Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
Disciplina: | 363.4/90942109045 |
Soggetto topico: | Homosexuality - England - London - History - 20th century |
Reconstruction (1939-1951) - England - London | |
Urban policy - England - London - History - 20th century | |
Soggetto geografico: | London (England) Social conditions 20th century |
London (England) Social life and customs 20th century | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-291) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: social modernism and male homosexuality in postwar London -- Reconstructing everyday life in the atomic age -- The perversity of the zigzag: the criminality of queer urban desire -- Trial by photobooth: the public face of the homosexual citizen -- Of public libraries and paperbacks: the sexual geographies of reading -- Life in the cybernetic bedsit: interior design and the homosexual self -- Conclusion: city of any dream. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Explores how London's queer culture was influenced by postwar efforts to create model citizens |
Titolo autorizzato: | The spiv and the architect ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4529-4613-2 |
0-8166-7343-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910785391303321 |
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