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Informationen zum Autor Matt Cook is Professor of Modern History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He is the author of Queer Domesticities: Homosexuality and Home Life in 20th-Century Londo n (2014) and London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914 (2003). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Presents the history of love and desire between men in Britain. Covering nearly a thousand years from the Norman Conquest to the internet age! this book talks about not only public figures like Richard the Lionheart or Derek Jarman! but also little-known individuals such as 'Eleanor'! a cross-dresser in Chaucer's England! and many others. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Matt CookChapter 1 Male-Male Love and Sex in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500 Robert MillsChapter 2 Renaissance Sodomy, 1500-1700 Randolph TrumbachChapter 3 Modern Sodomy: The Origins of Homosexuality, 1700-1800 Randolph TrumbachChapter 4 Secrets, Crimes and Diseases, 1800-1914 H. G. CocksChapter 5 Queer Conflicts: Love, Sex and War, 1914-1967 Matt CookChapter 6 From Gay Reform to Gaydar, 1967-2006 Matt CookIllustrations Further Reading Notes Author Biographies Index ...
