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Drunk with the glitter : space, consumption and sexual instability in modern urban culture
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Drunk with the glitter : space, consumption and sexual instability in modern urban culture

Gillian Swanson

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

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Drunk with the glitter : space, consumption and sexual instability in modern urban culture by Gillian Swanson. ISBN 9780415061315. Published by Routledge in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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