Drunk with the glitter
Subtitle: space, movement, and sexual instability in modern urban culture
By: Gillian Swanson.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415061308; 9780415061315
Subjects: Sexual ethics -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Sex -- Social aspects -- Great Britain; Sex role -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Social change -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Sociology, Urban -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945-; Great Britain -- Moral conditions
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Urban modernity and sexual instability : space, movement, and dispersal; title: "So much money and so little to spend it on" : sexual excitations and familial devotions; title: "The gratification of the moment...the limit of their mental horizon" : eugenics, psychology, and the "problem girl"; title: "Shattered into a multiplicity of warring functions" : synthetic culture, disintegration, and "distractibility"; title: "A harlot hires a car" : prostitution, dispersal, and displacement in the Wolfenden report; title: Homosexuality, seduction, and psychosis : "flying and drowning" with Lawrence of Arabia; title: "Good time girls" and a "thoroughly filthy fellow" : sexual pathology and national character in the Profumo affair.