The Spiv and the Architect

Unruly Life in Postwar London

Richard Hornsey

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University of Minnesota Press
24 May 2010

Social & cultural history; Cultural studies; Social groups

As London emerged from the devastation of the Second World War, planners and policy makers sought to rebuild the city in ways that would reshape the behavior of its citizens as much as its buildings and infrastructure-a program defined by a strong emphasis on civic order and conservative values of national community. One of the groups most significantly affected by this new, moralisticclimate of reformation and renewal was queer men, whom the police, the media, and lawmakers targeted as an urgent urban problem by marking their lives and desires as criminal and deviant.

By: Richard Hornsey
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780816653157
ISBN 10: 0816653151
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 24 May 2010
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Social Modernism and Male Homosexuality in Postwar London, 1. Reconstructing Everyday Life in the Atomic Age, 2. The Perversity of the Zigzag: The Criminality of Queer Urban Desire, 3. Trial by Photobooth: The Public Face of the Homosexual Citizen, 4. Of Public Libraries and Paperbacks: The Sexual Geographies of Reading, 5. Life in the Cybernetic Bedsit: Interior Design and the Homosexual Self, Conclusion: City of Any Dream, Acknowledgments, Notes, Index

Richard Hornsey is senior lecturer in cultural studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol.