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Metropolitan lovers : the homosexuality of cities
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Metropolitan lovers : the homosexuality of cities

Author: Julie Abraham
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Julie Abraham
ISBN: 9780816638185 0816638187 9780816638192 0816638195
OCLC Number: 229031012
Description: xxii, 357 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Contents: Preface: The lives of homosexuals in the idea of the city --
I. Setting terms : 1. Les Lesbiennes, or The city in history : Femmes damnées ; The vice of whores ; The victims of capital ; The heroines of modernism --
2. Oscar Wilde in Los Angeles : Reading lessons ; The legible city ; The genius of criminals ; Ernest in town ; Socialism and interpretation --
II. Claiming residence : 3. Perverts in groups : The social evil in Chicago ; Modern nervousness ; La Ville invisible --
4. City of women : The social claim and the industrial city ; At home on Halsted Street --
5. Radclyffe Hall at the Chicago School : The criminal, the defective, and the genius ; Communal lives --
III. The fear and hope of great American cities : 6. Paris, Harlem, Hudson Street-1961 ; Are cities un-American? ; History in the city ; Children and strangers ; Neighborhoods and slums --
7. City of feeling : The culture of cities ; Into the streets ; Ghetto gentry ; Making urban meaning ; Afterword: Queer in the great city ; Somewhere ; A place for us ; The future of cities.
Responsibility: Julie Abraham.
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