A Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Men Since the Middle Ages - Rilegato

Cocks, H. G.; Mills, Robert; Trumbach, Randolph

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1846450020 ISBN 13: 9781846450020

Casa editrice: Praeger Pub Text, 2007

Riassunto

The book explores the changing ways in which male-male sex and love have been perceived and experienced from the late Anglo-Saxon period to the present. Celebrated figures, such as Richard Lionheart, whose love for Philip Augustus of France was so well-documented, Oscar Wilde, gubject of the most explosive scandal of the Victorian period, and Derek Jarman, the great artist and chronicler of the age of AIDS, are examined alongside little-known figures: Eleanor/John Rykener, a cross-dresser in Chaucer's England, the mollies of eighteenth-century London, the habituants of underground gay bars and cafes in 1930s Manchester and Brighton, and the newly-confident gays of contemporary Britain, who marry, adopt children and command the increasingly powerful 'pink pound'. Drawing on a fabulous wealth of research, the authors - each an expert in his field - have worked closely together to deliver a powerful, highly-readable and eye-opening history of love and desire between men in Britain.

Su questo libro

Recensione:

A valuable, long-overdue addition to the canon of gay history. GAY TIMES --Gay Times

[A] substantial, moving and significant [story], well captured in an impressive book... THE INDEPENDENT --The Independent

[A] thorough and fascinating glimpse back at gay life in the UK over the last 1,000 years... a landmark achievement, shedding light on a section of history too often ignored or overlooked. OUT IN THE CITY --Out in the City

L'autore:

Matt Cook (lead author and editor) is lecturer in history at Birkbeck College, and author ofLondon and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885 - 1914 (2003).

Robert Mills is a lecturer in English at King's College London, and author ofSuspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture (2005).

Randolph Trumbach is professor of history at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York and author ofThe Rise of the Egalitarian Family (1978) and Sex and the Gender Revolution, vol. 1: Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London (1998).

H. G. Cocks is lecturer in history at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author ofNameless Offences: Homosexual Desire in the Nineteenth Century (2003).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Praeger Pub Text
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1846450020
• ISBN 13: 9781846450020
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Redattore: Cook Matt