Bodies, Sexuality and the "Modernization" of the British Working Classes, 1920s to 1960s.
A neglected aspect of the perceived ‘embourgeoisement’ of the British working-classes in the 1950s was the representation of a blurring of class difference around questions of sexuality. In different ways, female bodies and sexuality in the postwar period became a means of talking about changing cla...
| Publicado en: | International Labor & Working-Class History no. 69; pp. 104 - 123 |
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Cambridge University Press
Spring2006
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