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Book SynopsisTakes stock of the ‘new British queer history’. Topics range from newspaper reporting of sodomy cases, to homoerotic representations in art, to queer autobiographical accounts, to oral histories of Scottish lesbians, and much else besides.
Trade Review'The historians are coming and they’re bringing the New Queer History. The essays collected in British queer history present original perspectives and fascinating new data on the social, sexual and gendered past. Recommended!'
Jonathan Ned Katz, author of The Invention of Heterosexuality and founder of OutHistory.org
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: British queer history – Brian Lewis
1. Politics and the reporting of sex between men in the 1820s – Charles Upchurch
2. Naturalism, labour and homoerotic desire: Henry Scott Tuke – Jongwoo Jeremy Kim
3. Bricks and Flowers: Unconventionality and queerness in Katherine Everett’s life writing – Mo Moulton
4. ‘A peculiarly obscure subject’: The missing ‘case’ of the heterosexual – Laura Doan
5. ‘These young men who come down from Oxford and write gossip’: Society gossip, homosexuality and the logic of revelation in the interwar popular press – Ryan Linkof
6. Thinking queer: The social and the sexual in interwar Britain – Matt Houlbrook
7. ‘I conformed; I got married. It seemed like a good idea at the time’: Domesticity in post-war lesbian oral history – Amy Tooth Murphy
8. Mr Grey goes to Washington: The homophile internationalism of Britain’s Homosexual Law Reform Society – David Minto
9. The homosexual as a social being in Britain, 1945–68 – Chris Waters
10. Films and filming: the making of a queer marketplace in pre-decriminalisation Britain – Justin Bengry
11. The cultural politics of gay pornography in 1970s Britain – Paul R. Deslandes
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