Description:

• digital stereo Digital recording
• data file

Notes:

• Restricted to use by people with documented print impairment.
• Read by multiple readers.
• Original version: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007. xi, 211 pages 97804156061315
• System requirements: PC or compatible, or Macintosh; MP3 player.
• UBC Crane Library

Contents:

• Introduction: urban modernity and sexual instability: space, movement and dispersal--1. 'So much money and so little to spend it on': sexual excitations and familial devotions--2. 'The gratification of the moment ... the limit of their mental horizon': eugenics, psychology and the 'problem girl'--3. 'Shattered into a multiplicity of warring functions': synthetic culture, disintegration and 'distractibility'--4. 'A harlot hires a car': prostitution, dispersal and displacement in the Wolfenden Report--5. Homosexuality, seduction and psychosis: 'flying and drowning' with 'Lawrence of Arabia'--6. 'Good-time girls' and a 'thoroughly filthy fellow': sexual pathology and national character in the Profumo Affair.

Control Number: 1217254

Subjects:

• Great Britain -- Moral conditions.
• Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945-
• Sex -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
• Sex role -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
• Sexual ethics -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
• Social change -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
• Sociology, Urban -- Great Britain.

Genre: Sound recordings.

Other Authors: BC Libraries Cooperative. National Network for Equitable Library Service, distributor.