Drunk with the glitter : space, consumption and sexual instability in modern urban culture / Gillian Swanson
- Author
- Swanson, Gillian
- Published
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
- Physical Description
- xi, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Contents
- Introduction : urban modernity and sexual instability : space, movement and dispersal -- 'So much money and so little to spend it on' : sexual excitations and familial devotions -- 'The gratification of the moment ... the limit of their mental horizon' : eugenics, psychology and the 'problem girl' -- 'Shattered into a multiplicity of warring functions' : synthetic culture, disintegration and 'distractibility' -- 'A harlot hires a car' : prostitution, dispersal and displacement in the Wolfenden report -- Homosexuality, seduction and psychosis : 'flying and drowning' with 'Lawrence of Arabia' -- 'Good-time girls' and a 'thoroughly filthy fellow' : sexual pathology and national character in the Profumo Affair.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780415061308 (hardback : alk. paper)
041506130X (hardback : alk. paper)
9780415061315 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0415061318 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-204) and index.
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