How did the 'altered conditions' of postwar Britain help to inaugurate new patterns of sociability, cultural attachment and intimate encounter?
Each chapter focuses on an area of public controversy which directed attention to those forms of sexual instability identified as threatening to national cohesion, including:
- sexual excitations in World War Two Britain
- the identification of the 'problem girl'
- 'distractibility' and 'synthetic culture' in postwar Britain
- prostitution in new cosmopolitan cultures in the 1950s
- Lawrence of Arabia and debates over male homosexuality in the 1950s
- the scandalous figure of Stephen Ward in the Profumo Affair.
How did the 'altered conditions' of postwar Britain help to inaugurate new patterns of sociability, cultural attachment and intimate encounter?
Each chapter focuses on an area of public controversy which directed attention to those forms of sexual instability identified as threatening to national cohesion, including:
- sexual excitations in World War Two Britain
- the identification of the 'problem girl'
- 'distractibility' and 'synthetic culture' in postwar Britain
- prostitution in new cosmopolitan cultures in the 1950s
- Lawrence of Arabia and debates over male homosexuality in the 1950s
- the scandalous figure of Stephen Ward in the Profumo Affair.
Drunk with the Glitter: Space, Consumption and Sexual Instability in Modern Urban Culture
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780415061315 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 11/08/2007 |
Edition description: | New |
Pages: | 224 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d) |