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Queer Domesticities

Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth-Century London

Palgrave Macmillan

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Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Matt Cook
      Pages 1-20
  3. Beautiful Homes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-27
    2. Epilogue

      • Matt Cook
      Pages 78-85
  4. Queer Families

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-93
    2. Joe Ackerley’s ‘Family Values’

      • Matt Cook
      Pages 112-130
    3. Epilogue

      • Matt Cook
      Pages 131-141
  5. Outsiders Inside: Finding Room in the City

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-152
  6. Taking Sexual Politics Home

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-198
    2. ‘Gay Times’: The Brixton Squatters

      • Matt Cook
      Pages 199-225
    3. Derek Jarman’s Domestic Politics

      • Matt Cook
      Pages 226-249
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 250-326

About this book

Sissy home boys or domestic outlaws? Through a series of vivid case studies taken from across the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Matt Cook explores the emergence of these trenchant stereotypes and looks at how they play out in the home and family lives of queer men.

Reviews

“In this scholarly but immensely readable book Matt Cook explores the domestic interiors of homosexual men at various times from the end of the 19th century to the onset of AIDS and the acceptance of gay parenting. … Cook has managed to capture the heart of the home of these gay men and brings a new insight into gendered domestic interiors, making a firm contribution to the history of homosexuality.” (Julie Peakman, History Today, Vol. 64 (12), December, 2014)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

    Matt Cook

About the author

Matt Cook is Senior Lecturer in History and Gender Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, and Co-director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. He works on the history of sexuality and on urban history and is author of London and the Culture of Homosexuality (2003) and editor of A Gay History of Britain (2007) and Queer 1950s (2012, with Heike Bauer).

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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