Capital Affairs - The Making of the Permissive Society

Informationen zum Autor Frank Mort is Professor of Cultural Histories, University of Manchester. His books include Cultures of Consumption: Masculinities and Social Space in Late Twentieth-Century Britain. Klappentext During the 1950s a series of spectacular scandals profoundly disturbed London life in ways that had major national consequences. High and low society collided in a city of social and sexual extremes. Patrician men-about-town, young independent women, go-ahead entrepreneurs, Westminster politicians, queer men and West-Indian newcomers played aconspicuous part in dramatic encounters that signalled a new phase of post-Victorian sexual morality. These dramas of pleasure and danger occurred not only in the glamorous and shady entertainment spaces of the West End but also in Whitehall, as well as the twilight zones of the inner city. Frank Mort uncovers the ways in which they transformed national culture. Soho and Notting Hill became beacons for anxieties over the changing character of sex in the city and the cultural impact of decolonisation. The "old" European migrants and the "new" Caribbean presence were significant factors in the readjustment of urban sexual mores. Zusammenfassung Did Britain's permissive society start with swinging London? This title challenges the sexual myth of the 1960s! arguing that its roots lay further back in the city's dramatic cultures of austerity and affluence that marked the post-war years. It focuses on sex and urban culture through a series of historical narratives.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Mort, Frank Mort, Mort Frank
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9780300118797
• ISBN: 978-0-300-11879-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 169 mm x 240 mm x 44 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; London, Greater London, History, Sociology, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, General and world history, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Sociology: family and relationships, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General