Queer 1950s

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Queer 1950s: Rethinking Sexuality in the Postwar Years

   1. Introduction: Queer 1950s: Rethinking Sexuality in the Postwar Years

      • Heike Bauer, Matt Cook

      Pages 1-10

3. Representing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. The Long 1950s as Radical In-Between: The Photography of Herbert Tobias

      • Jennifer V. Evans

      Pages 13-28

   3. Nouveau Désordre: Diabolical Queerness in 1950s French Cinema

      • Andrew Asibong

      Pages 29-40

   4. Love ‘Off the Rails’ or ‘Over the Teacups’? Lesbian Desire and Female Sexualities in the 1950s British Popular Press

      • Alison Oram

      Pages 41-57

4. Living

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. ‘Someone to Love’: Teen Girls’ Same-Sex Desire in the 1950s United States

      • Amanda H. Littauer

      Pages 61-76

   3. Cross-Generational Relationships before ‘the Lesbian’: Female Same-Sex Sexuality in 1950s Rural Finland

      • Antu Sorainen

      Pages 77-93

   4. Moral Panic or Critical Mass? The Queer Contradictions of 1950s New Zealand

      • Chris Brickell

      Pages 94-114

   5. Warm Homes in a Cold Climate: Rex Batten and the Queer Domestic

      • Matt Cook

      Pages 115-130

5. Thinking

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. Sexology Backward: Hirschfeld, Kinsey and the Reshaping of Sex Research in the 1950s

      • Heike Bauer

      Pages 133-149

   3. ‘Who Is She?’ Identities, Intertextuality and Authority in Non-Fiction Lesbian Pulp of the 1950s

      • Kaye Mitchell

      Pages 150-166

   4. Queer Profits: Homosexual Scandal and the Origins of Legal Reform in Britain

      • Justin Bengry

      Pages 167-182

   5. Geeks and Gaffs: The Queer Legacy of the 1950s American Freak Show

      • Elizabeth Stephens

      Pages 183-195

6. Back Matter

   Pages 196-209

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Leading sexuality scholars explore queer lives and cultures in the first full post-war decade through an array of sources and a range of perspectives. Drawing out the particularities of queer cultures from the Finland and New Zealand to the UK and the USA, this collection rethinks preconceptions of the 1950s and pinpoints some of its legacies.

• America
• Britain
• cinema
• concept
• culture
• drawing
• female sex
• fiction
• French
• Great Britain
• love
• non-fiction
• reform
• USA
• women

• Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

  Heike Bauer, Matt Cook

ANDREW ASIBONG Senior Lecturer in French and co-director of Birkbeck Research in Aesthetics of Kinship and Community (BRAKC), at Birkbeck, University of London, UK JUSTIN BENGRY the first Elizabeth and Cecil Kent Postdoctoral Fellow in British History at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada CHRIS BRICKELL Co-ordinator of the Gender Studies Programme at Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand JENNIFER V. EVANS Associate Professor of Modern European History at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada AMANDA LITTAUER Assistant Professor of History and Women's Studies at Northern Illinois University, USA KAYE MITCHELL Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Director of the MA Contemporary Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester, UK ALISON ORAM Professor in Social and Cultural History at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK ANTU SOREINEN Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland, Finland ELIZABETH STEPHENS Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia

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