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1 online resource |
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Genders and sexualities in history |
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Genders and sexualities in history.
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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 |
| Summary |
"Queer Domesticities" is about the ways in which queer men have made, experienced and described their homes in London. It is about how they did those things in relation to trenchant stereotypes which cast them as either sissy home boys or domestic outlaws, and in relation also to the immediate pressing contexts of the places they lived through choice or force of circumstance. Matt Cook's book takes queer history indoors and shows additional ways in which queer men orientated their sense of themselves -- behind closed doors and apart from the more public bars, clubs, cruising grounds, courtrooms, and protest and pride marches that have more often drawn our attention. In this way it casts in historical perspective the new interest in the home lives and styles of gay men which has come with legal change on civil partnerships, gay marriage and adoption and with TV and media depictions of gay men with particular domestic flair. The book rests on oral histories and unpublished diaries of relatively unknown men and on reassessments of famous and infamous figures, including artists Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts, architect and romantic socialist C.R. Ashbee, early reformer George Ives, interior designer Oliver Ford, writer and editor J.R. Ackerley, 'stately homo' Quentin Crisp, playwright Joe Orton and film-maker Derek Jarman |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Publisher supplied information; title not viewed |
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Homosexuality -- Social aspects -- England -- London
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Homosexuality -- England -- London -- History
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Gay men -- England -- London
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Social history.
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Sociology.
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Social Conditions
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Sociology
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social history.
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sociology.
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Social & cultural history -- England -- London, Greater London. -- 20th century.
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Oral history -- England -- London, Greater London. -- 20th century.
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Gender studies, gender groups -- England -- London, Greater London. -- 20th century.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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History.
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Gay men
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Homosexuality
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Homosexuality -- Social aspects
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History.
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England -- London
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137316073 |
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1137316071 |
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9780230221390 |
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0230221394 |
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