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The spiv and the architect : unruly life in postwar London / / Richard Hornsey



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Autore: Hornsey Richard Quentin Donald Visualizza persona
Titolo: The spiv and the architect : unruly life in postwar London / / Richard Hornsey Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4529-4613-2
0-8166-7343-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813574903321
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