The spiv and the architect
Subtitle: unruly life in postwar London
By: Richard Hornsey.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780816653140; 9780816653157
Subjects: Homosexuality -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century; Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- England -- London; Urban policy -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century; London (England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century; London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: social modernism and male homosexuality in postwar London; title: Reconstructing everyday life in the atomic age; title: The perversity of the zigzag: the criminality of queer urban desire; title: Trial by photobooth: the public face of the homosexual citizen; title: Of public libraries and paperbacks: the sexual geographies of reading; title: Life in the cybernetic bedsit: interior design and the homosexual self; title: Conclusion: city of any dream.