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Erotic city : sexual revolutions and the making of modern San Francisco / Josh Sides.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sides, Josh, 1972- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex customs--California--San Francisco--History.
- Sex customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Since the 1960s, San Francisco has been America's capital of sexual libertinism and a potent symbol in its culture wars. 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.
- Contents:
- What's become of the Paris of the West?
- Sex radicals and captive pedestrians
- When the streets went gay
- The unspoken sexuality of golden gate park
- Taking back the streets of San Francisco
- The many legacies of AIDS
- Newcomers, new revolutionaries, and new spaces.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771282-7
- 1-282-32882-4
- 9786612328824
- 0-19-970339-6
- OCLC:
- 496017615
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