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1 online resource (xiii, 209 pages) |
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Genders and sexualities in history series |
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Genders and sexualities in history.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Queer 50s; H. Bauer & M. Cook -- PART I: ESPISTEMOLOGIES -- Sexology Backward: Hirschfeld, Kinsey and the Reshaping of Sex Research in the 1950s; H. Bauer -- 'Someone to Love': Teen Girls' Same-Sex Desire in the 1950s United States; A.H. Littauer -- Lesbians before 'the Lesbian', 'Sisters' in Faith and Crime: Conceptualisations of Cross-generational Sexual Relationships in Two Women's Same-sex Fornication Court Cases in 1950s Rural Finland; A. Sorainen -- PART II: REPRESENTATIONS -- 'Who Is She?': Identities, Intertextuality and Authority in Non-Fiction Lesbian Pulp of the 1950s; K. Mitchell -- Love 'Off the Rails' or 'Over the Teacups'?: Lesbian Desire and Female Sexualities in the 1950s Popular Press; A. Oram -- Nouveau Ďsordre: Diabolical Queerness in 1950s French Cinema; A. Asibong -- PART III: REASSESSMENTS -- Moral Panic or Critical Mass?: The Queer Contradictions of 1950s New Zealand; C. Brickell -- Queer Profits: Homosexual Scandal and the Origins of Legal Reform in Britain; J. Bengry -- The Long 1950s as Radical-in-Between; J.V. Evans -- PART IV: LEGACIES -- Warm Homes in a Cold Climate: Rex Batten and the Queer Domestic; M. Cook -- Geeks and Gaffs: The Queer Legacy of the 1950s American Freak Show; E. Stephens -- Select bibliography |
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List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction / Heike Bauer & Matt Cook -- The long 1950s as radical in-between : the photography of Herbert Tobias / Jennifer V. Evans -- Nouveau désordre : diabolical queerness in 1950s French cinema / Andrew Asibong -- Love "off the rails" or "over the teacups"? : lesbian desire and female sexualities in the 1950s British popular press / Alison Oram -- Living -- "Someone to love" : teen girls' same-sex desire in the 1950s United States / Amanda H. Littauer -- Cross-generational relationships before "the lesbian" : female same-sex sexuality in 1950s rural Finland / Antu Sorainen -- Moral panic or critical mass? : the queer contradictions of 1950s New Zealand / Chris Brickell -- Warm homes in a cold climate : rex batten and the queer domestic / Matt Cook -- Thinking -- Sexology backward : Hirschfeld, Kinsey, and the reshaping of sex research in the 1950s / Heike Bauer -- "Who is she?" identities, intertextuality, and authority in non-fiction lesbian pulp of the 1950s / Kaye Mitchell -- Queer profits : homosexual scandal and the origins of legal reform in Britain / Justin Bengry -- Geeks and gaffs : the queer legacy of the 1950s American freak show / Elizabeth Stephens -- Select bibliography |
| Summary |
This collection brings together scholars from across the humanities in a fresh examination of queer lives, cultures and thought in the first full post-war decade. Through explorations of sexology, literature, film, oral testimony, newspapers and court records it nuances understandings of the period, and makes a case for the particularity of queer lives in different national contexts ₆ from Finland to New Zealand, the UK to the USA - whilst also marking the transnational movement of people and ideas. The collection rethinks perceptions of the 1950s, traces genealogies of sexual thought in that decade, and pinpoints some of its legacies. In so doing, it explores the utility of queer theoretical approaches and asks how far they can help us to unpick queer lives, relationships and networks in the past |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gay men -- History -- 20th century
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Lesbians -- History -- 20th century
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Gay men -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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Lesbians -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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Social & cultural history -- c 1945 to c 1960.
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Gay & Lesbian studies -- c 1945 to c 1960.
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20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 -- c 1945 to c 1960.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
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History.
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Gay men
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Gay men -- Social life and customs
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Lesbians
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Lesbians -- Social life and customs
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bauer, Heike.
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Cook, Matthew.
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| ISBN |
9781137264718 |
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1137264713 |
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128358784X |
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9781283587846 |
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