Queer Domesticities [electronic resource] : Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth-Century London /
Cook, M.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Beautiful Homes; Introduction; 1 Domestic Passions: Unpacking the Homes of Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts; 2 Queer Interiors: C.R. Ashbee to Oliver Ford; Epilogue; Part II: Queer Families; Introduction; 3 George Ives, Queer Lives and the Family; 4 Joe Ackerley''s ''Family Values''; Epilogue; Part III: Outsiders Inside: Finding Room in the City; 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 HomeIntroduction; 7 ''Gay Times'': The Brixton Squatters; 8 Derek Jarman''s Domestic Politics; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Great Britain—History.
Social history.
Oral history.
History, Modern.
Design.
Sociology.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Social History.
Oral History.
Modern History.
Design, general.
Gender Studies.