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Author:

Hornsey, Richard Quentin Donald.

Title:

The spiv and the architect : unruly life in postwar London / Richard Hornsey.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

310 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Homosexuality--London--London--History--20th century.
Reconstruction (1939-1951)--London.--London.
Urban policy--London--London--History--20th century.
London (England)--Social conditions--20th century.
London (England)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-291) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0816653151 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816653157 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816653143 (alk. paper)
9780816653140 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)475453567

LCCN:

2009052922

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)