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Queer Domesticities: Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth-Century London
M. Cook
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Paperback. 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. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 339 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AF; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; HBTD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 438.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Genders and Sexualities in History
Condition
New
Weight
438g
Number of Pages
326
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349306909
SKU
V9781349306909
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Ref
99-15
About M. Cook
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, ... Read more
Reviews for Queer Domesticities: Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth-Century London
In this scholarly but immensely readable book Matt Cook explores the domestic interiors of homosexual men at various times from the end of the 19th century to the onset of AIDS and the acceptance of gay parenting. ... Cook has managed to capture the heart of the home of these gay men and brings a new ... Read more