Drunk with the glitter : space, consumption and sexual instability in modern urban culture

Drunk with the glitter : space, consumption and sexual instability in modern urban culture / Gillian Swanson.

Author/creator	Swanson, Gillian
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Description	xi, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Subject(s)	Sexual ethics--Great Britain --History --20th century. Sex--Social aspects --Great Britain. Sex role--Great Britain --History --20th century. Social change--Great Britain --History --20th century. Sociology, Urban--Great Britain. Great Britain--Social conditions --1945- Great Britain--Moral conditions.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-204) and index.
LCCN	2007017385
ISBN	9780415061308 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN	041506130X (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780415061315 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	0415061318 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	HN 385.5 .S93 2007	✔ Available	Place Hold