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Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 de Matt Houlbrook

Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society

Autor Matt Houlbrook
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 oct 2006

Studiul istoriei sexualității a evoluat de la o simplă cronologie a actelor marginalizate spre o analiză profundă a modului în care spațiul urban și identitatea se modelează reciproc. În Queer London, suntem de părere că Matt Houlbrook reușește să depășească viziunea simplistă a orașului ca loc al eliberării sexuale, propunând în schimb o cartografiere a riscurilor și plăcerilor într-o metropolă aflată în plină transformare. Această ediție nouă, publicată de University of Chicago Press, rămâne o piesă centrală în The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society.

Structura volumului este organizată tematic pentru a acoperi complexitatea vieții urbane: de la mecanismele de reglementare și poliție, la „geografiile sexului public” și rolul băilor sau al spațiilor private. Houlbrook investighează modul în care bărbații queer au navigat prin Londra între 1918 și 1957, folosind un limbaj specific precum „Piccadilly Palare” și analizând tensiunile dintre respectabilitate și dorință. Găsim în această lucrare o alternativă solidă la London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885–1914 de Matt Cook pentru cursurile de istorie socială sau studii culturale; în timp ce Matt Cook se concentrează pe epoca victoriană și începutul secolului XX, Houlbrook extinde analiza asupra perioadei interbelice și postbelice, aducând în prim-plan cultura clasei muncitoare.

Această perspectivă asupra masculinității și a spațiului public continuă preocupările autorului din Men and masculinities in modern Britain, unde explorează construcția identității masculine în Marea Britanie. Prin utilizarea unor surse primare fascinante, precum scrisorile tânărului Cyril L. sau rapoartele tribunalelor, Queer London oferă o imagine intimă și riguroasă a modului în care orașul a fost transformat de prezența acestor comunități, în ciuda eforturilor autorităților de a le controla.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226354620
ISBN-10: 0226354628
Pagini: 398
Ilustrații: 11 halftones, 1 map
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:New ed.
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților în istorie, sociologie sau studii de gen care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile culturii urbane queer. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă nuanțată asupra modului în care legile, spațiul public și identitatea personală s-au ciocnit în Londra secolului XX. Este o lucrare premiată care transformă datele de arhivă într-o narațiune captivantă despre reziliență și explorare socială.

Despre autor

Matt Houlbrook este un istoric britanic recunoscut pentru contribuțiile sale în domeniul istoriei culturale și al studiilor de gen. În lucrările sale, precum Songs of Seven Dials, acesta explorează adesea intersecția dintre spațiul urban, rasă și transformările sociale ale Londrei în secolul XX. Prin volumul de față, Queer London, Houlbrook și-a consolidat reputația de cercetător capabil să integreze mărturii personale și documente juridice pentru a reconstrui vieți uitate. Expertiza sa se concentrează pe evoluția masculinității în Marea Britanie modernă, fiind un nume de referință pentru înțelegerea modului în care identitățile marginalizate au influențat structura socială a metropolelor contemporane.

Descriere scurtă

In August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, and the vibrant new life he had forged for himself in the big city. He wrote, "I have only been queer since I came to London about two years ago, before then I knew nothing about it." London, for Cyril, meant boundless opportunities to explore his newfound sexuality. But his freedom was limite: he was soon arrested, simply for being in a club frequented by queer men.

Cyril's story is Matt Houlbrook's point of entry into the queer worlds of early twentieth-century London. Drawing on previously unknown sources, from police reports and newspaper exposés to personal letters, diaries, and the first queer guidebook ever written, Houlbrook here explores the relationship between queer sexualities and modern urban culture that we take for granted today. He revisits the diverse queer lives that took hold in London's parks and streets; its restaurants, pubs, and dancehalls; and its Turkish bathhouses and hotels—as well as attempts by municipal authorities to control and crack down on those worlds. He also describes how London shaped the culture and politics of queer life—and how London was in turn shaped by the lives of queer men. Ultimately, Houlbrook unveils the complex ways in which men made sense of their desires and who they were. In so doing, he mounts a sustained challenge to conventional understandings of the city as a place of sexual liberation and a unified queer culture.

A history remarkable in its complexity yet intimate in its portraiture, Queer London is a landmark work that redefines queer urban life in England and beyond.

“A ground-breaking work. While middle-class lives and writing have tended to compel the attention of most historians of homosexuality, Matt Houlbrook has looked more widely and found a rich seam of new evidence. It has allowed him to construct a complex, compelling account of interwar sexualities and to map a new, intimate geography of London.”—Matt Cook, The Times Higher Education Supplement
 
Winner of History Today’s Book of the Year Award, 2006

Notă biografică

Matt Houlbrook is a lecturer in history at the University of Liverpool.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Terminology
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: This Is London
PART 1 POLICING
1. Regulation
PART 2 PLACES
2. Geographies of Public Sex
3. The Pink Shilling
4. The Baths
5. A Room of One’s Own
PART 3 PEOPLE
6. “Piccadilly Palare”: The World of the West End Poof
7. “London’s Bad Boys”: Homosex, Manliness, and Money in Working-Class Culture
8. “The Heart in Exile”: Respectability, Restraint, and the City
PART 4 POLITICS
9. Sexual Difference and Britishness
10. Daring to Speak Whose Name? Queer Cultural Politics
Conclusion
Appendix Queer Incidents Resulting in Proceedings at the Metropolitan Magistrates Courts and City of London Justice Rooms, 1917–57
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

“Through an extensive trawl of police records, Matt Houlbrook provides an insight into the dangers and excitements of the underground homosexual scene during the first half of the 20th century. Homosexual behaviour was still an imprisonable offence, yet Houlbrook shows how men defined their own spaces in the metropolis, establishing covert places where they could meet like-minded men. . . . This is a well-researched book which adds to recent scholarship in the history of sexuality. The author challenges the rigid views found in current observations of homosexuality extending our understanding by, quite rightly, placing into the broader overall pattern of changing masculinity.”

“From the dockside pubs and river steps of the East End to the glittering Long Bar of the Trocadero; from the Savoy Turkish Baths in Jermyn Street to the stinking cast-iron urinals on Fair Street in Bermondsey, Houlbrook’s narrative meanders across a capital city as protean as the middle-class men and working-class boys who lived and lusted, loved and (more often than not) loitered and lost within it.”

“Queer London explores the relationship between gay sexualities and modern urban culture, revisiting the restaurants, pubs, dance halls, Turkish baths and hotels of London, and shows how municipal authorities tried to crack down on these worlds.”

“As Queer London makes remarkably clear, just a few decades ago, significant numbers of (working-class) young men were not only moving freely between male and female partners but were happy to brag about it. So long as they were ‘butch’ and active—or claimed they were—it would merely enhance their reputation with the lads.”

Peter Furtado calls it “not a story of persecution, but a lucid, sane and fascinating account of how gay people negotiated space for themselves within a hostile cultural environment, dealing with policing, housing, geography, identity and politics. . . . It will also make readers think about London and its public spaces differently.”

"A ground-breaking work. While middle-class lives and writing have tended to compel the attention of most historians of homosexuality, Matt Houlbrook has looked more widely and found a rich seam of new evidence. It has allowed him to construct a complex, compelling account of interwar sexualities and to map a new, intimate geography of London. . . . Houlbrook vividly illustrates the significance of actual places and things in London, and so indicates the importance of material culture to the way men were experiencing themselves and each other. He takes chiffon, suede, lipstick, powder and puffs, urinals, parks, pavements, shops, bars and lodging houses as seriously as sexological tomes and earnest fiction. All of these were, after all, the stuff of everyday life. . . . All this vivid detail is delivered with analytic acumen and theoretical sophistication. We rarely lose sight of the point of stories and anecdotes as they build to illustrate arguments about the city and the plural and shifting understandings of queer sex and affections. Houlbrook reminds us that there was no singular queer type or unified queer scene, and neither is there a seamless queer history telling the story of progressive liberation."

"Houlbrook, in this well-researched and fascinating study, seeks to rescue the lives of men who loved other men . . . from the 'condescension of posterity.' Drawing upon personal memoirs, novels and criminal records he depicts a population which lived in a very different framework from that of gay men today."

"This theoretically informed, innovative, cleverly researched, subtle, graceful, brilliant book demonstrates just how good history can be. . . . Althgough Houlbrook has published some of the material before in well-crafted articles, none of them prepares the reader for the sheer power and delight of this book."

"Houlbrook weaves together a rich diversity of material—oral and published memoirs, biographies, newspaper reports and opinion pieces. and a vast range of archival materials—into a compelling and thought-provoking narrative."

"In this ambitious study, Matt Houlbrook shows why for many men coming to London and becoming homosexual were part of the same process. . . . Engaging and well written."

“QueerLondon is saturated by explicit anecdotes of intimacy of men of every age, class, and walk of life in strikingly various places. A passionate storyteller as much as method historian, Houlbrook creates a compelling testimony...”