Sex, time and place : queer histories of London, c.1850 to the present /

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Imprint:	London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
Description:	xiii, 299 pages ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Gays -- England -- London -- History. Sex -- England -- London -- History. Public spaces -- England -- London -- History. Gays. Manners and customs. Public spaces. Sex. London (England) -- Social life and customs. England -- London. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10892166

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Other authors / contributors:	Avery, Simon, editor. Graham, Katherine M., editor.
ISBN:	9781474234924 1474234925 9781474234931 1474234933
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Sex, Time and Place extensively widens the scope of what we might mean by 'queer London studies'. Incorporating multidisciplinary perspectives - including social history, cultural geography, visual culture, literary representation, ethnography and social studies - this collection asks new questions, widens debates and opens new subject terrain. Featuring essays from an international range of established scholars and emergent voices, the collection is a timely contribution to this growing field. Its essays cover topics such as activist and radical communities and groups, AIDS and the city, art and literature, digital archives and technology, drag and performativity, lesbian Londons, notions of bohemianism and deviancy, sex reform and research and queer Black history. Going further than the existing literature on Queer London which focuses principally on the experiences of white gay men in a limited time frame, Sex, Time and Place reflects the current state of this growing and important field of study. It will be of great value to scholars, students and general readers who have an interest in queer history, London studies, cultural geography, visual cultures and literary criticism.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Section 1. Framing Queer London
1. Structuring and Interpreting Queer Spaces of London
2. Queer Temporalities, Queer Londons
3. Mapping This Volume
Section 2. Exploring Queer London
4. London, AIDS and the 1980s
5. Bigot Geography: Queering Geopolitics in Brixton
6. Representations of Queer London in the Fiction of Sarah Waters
7. Are Drag Kings Still Too Queer for London? From the Nineteenth-Century Impersonator to the Drag King of Today
8. Claude McKay: Queering Spaces of Black Radicalism in Inter war London
9. The British Society of the Study of Sex Psychology: 'Advocating the Culture of Unnatural and Criminal Practices'?
10. Cannibal London: Racial Discourses, Pornography and Male-Male Desire in Late-Victorian Britain
11. 'Famous for the paint she put on her face': London's Painted Poofs and the Self-Fashioning of Francis Bacon
12. Mingling with the Ungodly: Simeon Solomon in Queer Victorian London
13. Alan Hollinghurst's Fictional Ways of Queering London
14. Sink Street: The Sapphic World of Pre-Chinatown Soho
15. Chasing Community: From Old Compton Street to the Online World of Grindr
16. Being 'There': Contemporary London, Facebook and Queer Historical Feeling
Bibliography
Index

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