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The spiv and the architect : unruly life in postwar London / Richard Hornsey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hornsey, Richard Quentin Donald.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homosexuality--England--London--History--20th century.
- Homosexuality.
- Reconstruction (1939-1951)--England--London.
- Reconstruction (1939-1951).
- Urban policy--England--London--History--20th century.
- Urban policy.
- London (England)--Social conditions--20th century.
- London (England).
- London (England)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores how London's queer culture was influenced by postwar efforts to create model citizens
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-291) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-4613-2
- 0-8166-7343-8
- OCLC:
- 670429493
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