Drunk with the glitter : space, consumption and sexual instability in modern urban culture / Gillian Swanson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swanson, Gillian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

History.

Sex role.

Sex--Social aspects.

Sexual ethics.

Great Britain--Social conditions--1945-.

Great Britain.

Social conditions.

Sexual ethics--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Sex--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Sex.

Sex role--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Social change--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Great Britain--Moral conditions.

Moral conditions.

Sociology, Urban--Great Britain.

Sociology, Urban.

Physical Description:

xi, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Contents:

Introduction : urban modernity and sexual instability : space, movement and dispersal

'So much money and so little to spend it on' : sexual excitations and familial devotions

'The gratification of the moment ... the limit of their mental horizon' : eugenics, psychology and the 'problem girl'

'Shattered into a multiplicity of warring functions' : synthetic culture, disintegration and 'distractibility'

'A harlot hires a car' : prostitution, dispersal and displacement in the Wolfenden report

Homosexuality, seduction and psychosis : 'flying and drowning' with 'Lawrence of Arabia'

'Good-time girls' and a 'thoroughly filthy fellow' : sexual pathology and national character in the Profumo Affair.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-204) and index.

ISBN:

9780415061308

041506130X

9780415061315

0415061318

OCLC:

134989249