Drunk with the Glitter examines the ways in which urban modernity
reshapes 'cultural experience'. In particular, it explores the ways
that categories of sexual identity and behaviour were reformulated
in relation to the restructuring of urban space and the
introduction of new cultures of consumption in a period of
modernization.
How did the 'altered conditions' of postwar Britain help to
inaugurate new patterns of sociability, cultural attachment and
intimate encounter?
Each chapter focuses on an area of public controversy which
directed attention to those forms of sexual instability identified
as threatening to national cohesion, including:
- sexual excitations in World War Two Britain
- the identification of the 'problem girl'
- 'distractibility' and 'synthetic culture' in postwar
Britain
- prostitution in new cosmopolitan cultures in the 1950s
- Lawrence of Arabia and debates over male homosexuality in the
1950s
- the scandalous figure of Stephen Ward in the Profumo
Affair.
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