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Drunk with the glitter : space, consumption and sexual instability in modern urban culture

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  • Author: Swanson, Gillian
    Date:
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    2014
    Summary:

    Examines the ways in which urban modernity reshapes 'cultural experience'. This work explores the ways that categories of sexual identity and behaviour were reformulated in relation to the restructuring of urban space and the introduction of new cultures of consumption in a period of modernization.

    Contents:
    • Introduction: urban modernity and sexual instability: space, movement and dispersal
    • 1. 'So much money and so little to spend it on': sexual excitations and familial devotions
    • 2. 'The gratification of the moment ... the limit of their mental horizon': eugenics, psychology and the 'problem girl'
    • 3. 'Shattered into a multiplicity of warring functions': synthetic culture, disintegration and 'distractibility'
    • 4. 'A harlot hires a car': prostitution, dispersal and displacement in the Wolfenden Report
    • 5. Homosexuality, seduction and psychosis: 'flying and drowning' with 'Lawrence of Arabia'
    • 6. 'Good-time girls' and a 'thoroughly filthy fellow': sexual pathology and national character in the Profumo Affair.
    Genre:
    Social science
    Subject(s): Twentieth century | Great Britain | Sex | Sex role | Sexual ethics | Social Change | Sociology, Urban
    Original Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007
    Language(s): English