Queer 1950s

1. Introduction: Queer 1950s: Rethinking Sexuality in the Postwar Years
Heike Bauer, Matt Cook

Part I. Representing

2. The Long 1950s as Radical In-Between: The Photography of Herbert Tobias
Jennifer V. Evans

3. Nouveau Désordre: Diabolical Queerness in 1950s French Cinema
Andrew Asibong

4. Love ‘Off the Rails’ or ‘Over the Teacups’? Lesbian Desire and Female Sexualities in the 1950s British Popular Press
Alison Oram

Part II. Living

5. ‘Someone to Love’: Teen Girls’ Same-Sex Desire in the 1950s United States
Amanda H. Littauer

6. Cross-Generational Relationships before ‘the Lesbian’: Female Same-Sex Sexuality in 1950s Rural Finland
Antu Sorainen

7. Moral Panic or Critical Mass? The Queer Contradictions of 1950s New Zealand
Chris Brickell

8. Warm Homes in a Cold Climate: Rex Batten and the Queer Domestic
Matt Cook

Part III. Thinking

9. Sexology Backward: Hirschfeld, Kinsey and the Reshaping of Sex Research in the 1950s
Heike Bauer

10. ‘Who Is She?’ Identities, Intertextuality and Authority in Non-Fiction Lesbian Pulp of the 1950s
Kaye Mitchell

11. Queer Profits: Homosexual Scandal and the Origins of Legal Reform in Britain
Justin Bengry

12. Geeks and Gaffs: The Queer Legacy of the 1950s American Freak Show
Elizabeth Stephens

Keywords: History, Social History, Modern History, World History, Global and Transnational History