Drunk with the glitter : space, consumption and sexual instability in modern urban culture /
Swanson, Gillian.
London : Routledge,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-204) and index.
Introduction : urban modernity and sexual instability : space, movement and dispersal -- 'So much money and so little to spend it on' : sexual excitations and familial devotions -- 'The gratification of the moment ... the limit of their mental horizon' : eugenics, psychology and the 'problem girl' -- 'Shattered into a multiplicity of warring functions' : synthetic culture, disintegration and 'distractibility' -- 'A harlot hires a car' : prostitution, dispersal and displacement in the Wolfenden report -- Homosexuality, seduction and psychosis : 'flying and drowning' with 'Lawrence of Arabia' -- 'Good-time girls' and a 'thoroughly filthy fellow' : sexual pathology and national character in the Profumo Affair.
Sexual ethics
Sex
Sex role
Social change
Sociology, Urban