Queer Domesticities
Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth-Century London
Authors: Cook, M.
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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).
- Reviews
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“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)
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-20
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Domestic Passions: Unpacking the Homes of Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts
Pages 29-54
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Queer Interiors: C.R. Ashbee to Oliver Ford
Pages 55-77
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Epilogue
Pages 78-85
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George Ives, Queer Lives and the Family
Pages 95-111
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Queer Domesticities
- Book Subtitle
- Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth-Century London
- Authors
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- M. Cook
- Series Title
- Genders and Sexualities in History
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-31607-3
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137316073
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-22139-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-30690-9
- Series ISSN
- 2730-9479
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 326
- Topics
