Drunk with the glitter space, consumption and sexual instability in modern urban culture

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  • Author: Swanson, Gillian
    Summary:

    Examines the ways in which urban modernity reshapes 'cultural experience'. This work explores the ways that categories of sexual identity and behaviour were reformulated in relation to the restructuring of urban space and the introduction of new cultures of consumption in a period of modernization.

    Contents:
    • Introduction: urban modernity and sexual instability: space, movement and dispersal
    • 1. 'So much money and so little to spend it on': sexual excitations and familial devotions
    • 2. 'The gratification of the moment ... the limit of their mental horizon': eugenics, psychology and the 'problem girl'
    • 3. 'Shattered into a multiplicity of warring functions': synthetic culture, disintegration and 'distractibility'
    • 4. 'A harlot hires a car': prostitution, dispersal and displacement in the Wolfenden Report
    • 5. Homosexuality, seduction and psychosis: 'flying and drowning' with 'Lawrence of Arabia'
    • 6. 'Good-time girls' and a 'thoroughly filthy fellow': sexual pathology and national character in the Profumo Affair.
    Genre: Social science
    Subject(s): History
    Original Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007
    Language(s): English

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Abstract

Examines the ways in which urban modernity reshapes 'cultural experience'. This work explores the ways that categories of sexual identity and behaviour were reformulated in relation to the restructuring of urban space and the introduction of new cultures of consumption in a period of modernization.

Genre
Social science
Subject
History
Publisher (Source)

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007

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ISBN

97804156061315

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