British queer history : new approaches and perspectives /

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Imprint:	Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Description:	xi, 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Queer theory -- Great Britain -- History. Homosexuality -- Great Britain -- History. Homosexuality. Queer theory. Great Britain. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9898598

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Other authors / contributors:	Lewis, Brian, 1965- editor of compilation.
ISBN:	9780719088940 (hbk.) 0719088941 (hbk.) 9780719088957 (pbk.) 071908895X (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	This collection of essays takes stock of the 'new British queer history'. It is intended both for scholars and students of British social and cultural history and of the history of sexuality and for a broader readership interested in queer issues. In offering a snapshot of the field, this volume shows the richness and promise of one of the most vibrant areas of modern British history and the complexity and breadth of discussion, debate and approach.

Table of Contents:

List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: British queer history
1. Politics and the reporting of sex between men in the 1820s
2. Naturalism, labour and homoerotic desire: Henry Scott Tuke
3. Bricks and Flowers: unconventionality and queerness in Katherine Everett's life writing
4. 'A peculiarly obscure subject': the missing 'case' of the heterosexual
5. 'These young men who come down from Oxford and write gossip': Society gossip, homosexuality and the logic of revelation in the interwar popular press
6. Thinking queer: the social and the sexual in interwar Britain
7. 'I conformed; I got married. It seemed like a good idea at the time': domesticity in postwar lesbian oral history
8. The homosexual as a social being in Britain, 1945-1968
9. Mr Grey goes to Washington: the homophile internationalism of Britain's Homosexual Law Reform Society
10. Films and Filming, the making of a queer marketplace in pre-decriminalisation Britain
11. The cultural politics of gay pornography in 1970s Britain
Index

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