Drunk with the glitter: space, consumption and sexual instability in modern urban culture
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Main Author: Swanson, Gillian (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London [u.a.] Routledge 2007
Edition:1. publ.
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Item Description: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
Physical Description:XI, 211 S. Ill. 24 cm
ISBN:9780415061308
041506130X
9780415061315
0415061318

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