Queer Domesticities

Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth-Century London
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-30690-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4328 g

Reihe: Genders and Sexualities in History

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cook, M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Oral History (Zeitzeugen)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Produktdesign, Industriedesign

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction PART I: BEAUTIFUL HOMES Introduction 1. Domestic Passions: Unpacking the Homes of Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts 2. Queer Interiors: from C.R.Ashbee to Oliver Ford Epilogue: Neil Bartlett and the Queer 'Comfort of Things' PART II: QUEER FAMILIES Introduction 3. George Ives, Queer Lives and the Family 4. Joe Randolph Ackerley's 'Family Values' Epilogue: Queer Fathers: Peter McGraith PART III OUTSIDERS INSIDE 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 HOME Introduction 7. 'Gay Times': The Brixton Squatters 8. Derek Jarman's Domestic Politics

Über Autor(innen)

Matt Cook is Senior Lecturer in History and Gender Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, and Co-director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. He works on the history of sexuality and on urban history and is author of London and the Culture of Homosexuality (2003) and editor of A Gay History of Britain (2007) and Queer 1950s (2012, with Heike Bauer).