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Kamp Melbourne in the 1920s and '30s Trade, Queans and Inverts

Murdoch, Wayne
Innbundet / 2017 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781443879040
Published
2017-08-23
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Height
212 mm
Width
148 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
240

Author
Murdoch, Wayne

Biographical note

Wayne Murdoch lives and breathes Australian social history. He became involved with the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives after moving to Melbourne for postgraduate study in the 1980s, which fostered his interest in the homosexual history of his adopted city.

Kamp Melbourne in the 1920s and '30s Trade, Queans and Inverts

Murdoch, Wayne
Innbundet / 2017 / Engelsk
Murdoch, Wayne
Innbundet / 2017 / Engelsk
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'Murdoch has produced a very readable and richly illustrated book, although some might be uncomfortable with the use of actual names and photographs given the legal context. Kamp Melbourne is a thoughtfully structured and accessible text and a useful ready reference for teaching and research. More than the sum of its parts, it provides an evocative and sensitive account of queer life in one of Australia's most dynamic cities and draws our attention to the fullness of kamp life at a crucial period of identity formation.'Yorick Smaal, Griffith UniversityAustralian Historical Studies 49 (2018)

Melbourne in the 1920s and '30s had a reputation as a staid and provincial city, a respectable, Sabbath-observing town, a metropolis of quiet suburban lives. There were, however, those who did not conform to society's rules; among them homosexual men. The members of this hidden and persecuted group formed a subculture of friendship groups, meeting places, secret signs and words which allowed them to live their lives against a backdrop of legal, social, and moral restrictions. This book is an investigation of this subculture and those men who lived within it.
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'Murdoch has produced a very readable and richly illustrated book, although some might be uncomfortable with the use of actual names and photographs given the legal context. Kamp Melbourne is a thoughtfully structured and accessible text and a useful ready reference for teaching and research. More than the sum of its parts, it provides an evocative and sensitive account of queer life in one of Australia's most dynamic cities and draws our attention to the fullness of kamp life at a crucial period of identity formation.'Yorick Smaal, Griffith UniversityAustralian Historical Studies 49 (2018)

Melbourne in the 1920s and '30s had a reputation as a staid and provincial city, a respectable, Sabbath-observing town, a metropolis of quiet suburban lives. There were, however, those who did not conform to society's rules; among them homosexual men. The members of this hidden and persecuted group formed a subculture of friendship groups, meeting places, secret signs and words which allowed them to live their lives against a backdrop of legal, social, and moral restrictions. This book is an investigation of this subculture and those men who lived within it.
Read more

Product details

ISBN
9781443879040
Published
2017-08-23
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Height
212 mm
Width
148 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
240

Author
Murdoch, Wayne

Biographical note

Wayne Murdoch lives and breathes Australian social history. He became involved with the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives after moving to Melbourne for postgraduate study in the 1980s, which fostered his interest in the homosexual history of his adopted city.

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