British queer history (eBook, ePUB)

New approaches and perspectives
Redaktion: Lewis, Brian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Takes stock of the 'new British queer history'. Topics range from newspaper reporting of sodomy cases, to homoerotic representations in art, to queer autobiographical accounts, to oral histories of Scottish lesbians, and much else besides.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526101570
• Artikelnr.: 48795388

Autorenporträt

Brian Lewis is Professor of History at McGill University, Montreal

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: British queer history - Brian Lewis 1. Politics and the
reporting of sex between men in the 1820s - Charles Upchurch 2. Naturalism,
labour and homoerotic desire: Henry Scott Tuke - Jongwoo Jeremy Kim 3.
Bricks and Flowers: Unconventionality and queerness in Katherine Everett's
life writing - Mo Moulton 4. 'A peculiarly obscure subject': The missing
'case' of the heterosexual - Laura Doan 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 - Ryan Linkof 6. Thinking
queer: The social and the sexual in interwar Britain - Matt Houlbrook 7. 'I
conformed; I got married. It seemed like a good idea at the time':
Domesticity in post-war lesbian oral history - Amy Tooth Murphy 8. Mr Grey
goes to Washington: The homophile internationalism of Britain's Homosexual
Law Reform Society - David Minto 9. The homosexual as a social being in
Britain, 1945-68 - Chris Waters 10. Films and filming: the making of a
queer marketplace in pre-decriminalisation Britain - Justin Bengry 11. The
cultural politics of gay pornography in 1970s Britain - Paul R. Deslandes
Index