Drunk with the glitter : space, consumption and sexual instability in modern urban culture
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Drunk with the glitter : space, consumption and sexual instability in modern urban culture
Routledge, 2007
- : hbk.
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Drunk with the Glitter examines the ways in which urban modernity reshapes 'cultural experience'. In particular, it 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.
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.
Table of 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
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