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Queer Domesticities: Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth-Century London: Genders and Sexualities in History

Autor M. Cook
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 apr 2014
Sissy home boys or domestic outlaws? Through a series of vivid case studies taken from across the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Matt Cook explores the emergence of these trenchant stereotypes and looks at how they play out in the home and family lives of queer men.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780230221390
ISBN-10: 0230221394
Pagini: 326
Ilustrații: XIII, 326 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:2014
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Genders and Sexualities in History

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction PART I: BEAUTIFUL HOMES Introduction 1. Domestic Passions: Unpacking the Homes of Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts 2. Queer Interiors: from C.R.Ashbee to Oliver Ford Epilogue: Neil Bartlett and the Queer 'Comfort of Things' PART II: QUEER FAMILIES Introduction 3. George Ives, Queer Lives and the Family 4. Joe Randolph Ackerley's 'Family Values' Epilogue: Queer Fathers: Peter McGraith PART III OUTSIDERS INSIDE Introduction 5. Remembering Bedsitterland: Rex Batten, Carl Marshall and Alan Louis 6. Homes Fit for Homos: Joe Orton's Queer Domestic PART IV: TAKING SEXUAL POLITICS HOME Introduction 7. 'Gay Times': The Brixton Squatters 8. Derek Jarman's Domestic Politics

Recenzii

“In this scholarly but immensely readable book MattCook explores the domestic interiors of homosexual men at various times fromthe end of the 19th century to the onset of AIDS and the acceptance of gayparenting. … Cook has managed to capture the heart of the home of these gay menand brings a new insight into gendered domestic interiors, making a firmcontribution to the history of homosexuality.” (Julie Peakman, History Today,Vol. 64 (12), December, 2014)

Notă biografică

Matt Cook is Senior Lecturer in History and Gender Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, and Co-director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. He works on the history of sexuality and on urban history and is author of London and the Culture of Homosexuality (2003) and editor of A Gay History of Britain (2007) and Queer 1950s (2012, with Heike Bauer).