Queer 1950s: Rethinking Sexuality in the Postwar YearsH. Bauer, M. Cook Leading sexuality scholars explore queer lives and cultures in the first full post-war decade through an array of sources and a range of perspectives. Drawing out the particularities of queer cultures from the Finland and New Zealand to the UK and the USA, this collection rethinks preconceptions of the 1950s and pinpoints some of its legacies. |
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The Photography | |
Love Off the Rails or Over | |
Teacups? LesbianDesire | |
Female | |
SameSex Sexuality in 1950sRural Finland Antu Sorainen 6 Moral Panicor Critical | |
Rex Batten and the Queer | |
Hirschfeld Kinsey and the Reshaping of | |
Who Is She? Identities Intertextuality | |
Homosexual Scandal and the Origins of Legal | |
TheQueer Legacy ofthe 1950s American Freak | |
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