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Author Hornsey, Richard Quentin Donald.

Title The spiv and the architect [electronic resource] : unruly life in postwar London / Richard Hornsey.

Imprint Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

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Description 310 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-291) and index.
Contents Introduction: social modernism and male homosexuality in postwar London -- Reconstructing everyday life in the atomic age -- The perversity of the zigzag: the criminality of queer urban desire -- Trial by photobooth: the public face of the homosexual citizen -- Of public libraries and paperbacks: the sexual geographies of reading -- Life in the cybernetic bedsit: interior design and the homosexual self -- Conclusion: city of any dream.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780816653140 (alk. paper)
0816653143 (alk. paper)
9780816653157 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816653151 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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