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Queer Domesticities : Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth-Century London / by M. Cook.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cook, M., Author.
- Series:
- Genders and Sexualities in History, 2730-9487
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--History.
- Great Britain.
- Social history.
- Oral history.
- History, Modern.
- Design.
- Sex.
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- Social History.
- Oral History.
- Modern History.
- Gender Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- Social History.
- Oral History.
- Modern History.
- Design.
- Gender Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2014.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Beautiful Homes; Introduction; 1 Domestic Passions: Unpacking the Homes of Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts; 2 Queer Interiors: C.R. Ashbee to Oliver Ford; Epilogue; Part II: Queer Families; Introduction; 3 George Ives, Queer Lives and the Family; 4 Joe Ackerley''s ''Family Values''; Epilogue; Part III: Outsiders Inside: Finding Room in the City; 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 HomeIntroduction; 7 ''Gay Times'': The Brixton Squatters; 8 Derek Jarman''s Domestic Politics; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137316073
- 1137316071
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