Queer 1950s Rethinking Sexuality In The Postwar Years Genders And Sexualities In History 1st Edition Heike Bauer by Heike Bauer, Matt Cook 9781137264718, 9781349336487, 1137264713, 1349336483 instant download after payment.

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.
HEIKE BAUER is senior lecturer in English and Gender Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. She works on gender, writing and the histories and theories of sexuality since the nineteenth century, and on translation. Her books include the anthology Women and Cross-Dressing 1800-1930 (2006) and English Literary Sexology: Translations of Inversion 1860-1930 (2009), a study of sexology and literature at the fin de siecle. She is completing a book on Magnus Hirschfeld, sexuality and cross-cultural exchange in the early twentieth century and is leading a related collaboration on sexology and translation in the modern world. MATT COOK is senior lecturer in History and Gender Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Co-director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. He works on the history of gender and sexuality and the history of London and is author of London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885 - 1914 (2003) and editor of A Gay History of Britain. His new book - Queer Domesticities - and a collection on post-war queer urban cultures in Europe will appear in 2013.