Queer Domesticities: Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth-Century London

Sissy home boys or domestic outlaws? Through a series of vivid case studies taken from across the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Matt Cook explores the emergence of these trenchant stereotypes and looks at how they play out in the home and family lives of queer men.

Author: M. Cook
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 04/25/2014
Pages: 326
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9781349306909

About the Author
Matt Cook is Senior Lecturer in History and Gender Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, and Co-director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. He works on the history of sexuality and on urban history and is author of London and the Culture of Homosexuality (2003) and editor of A Gay History of Britain (2007) and Queer 1950s (2012, with Heike Bauer).