Robinson Gay men and the Left in post-war Britain

How the personal got political
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84779-233-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Critical Labour Movement Studies

When the personal became political it changed British politics for ever. Gay men and the left, available in paperback for the first time, explores the enormous impact that gay politics had on the landscape of post-war Britain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robinson, Lucy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Politics and culture – homosexuality and the left in post-war Britain
2. Reporting change – law reform, homosexual identity and the role of the counter-culture
3. Praxis, protest and performance – gay liberation 1969-1973
4. The left gets personal – identity, performance and the left 1972-1979
5. The next big thing – from gay left collective to Greater London Council, paedophile identity and the state of the left
6. Confronting Thatcher – The Bermondsey by-election, lesbians and gays support the miners and AIDS activism
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robinson Lucy:
Lucy Robinson is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of SussexLucy Robinson is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Sussex