Description |
1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-274) and index. |
Contents |
What's become of the Paris of the West? -- Sex radicals and captive pedestrians -- When the streets went gay -- The unspoken sexuality of golden gate park -- Taking back the streets of San Francisco -- The many legacies of AIDS -- Newcomers, new revolutionaries, and new spaces. |
Summary |
Since the 1960s, San Francisco has been America's capital of sexual libertinism and a potent symbol in its culture wars. In this highly original book, Josh Sides explains how this happened, unearthing long-forgotten stories of the city's sexual revolutionaries, as well as the legions of longtime San Franciscans who tried to protect their vision of a moral metropolis. Erotic dancers, prostitutes, birth control advocates, pornographers, free lovers, and gay libbers transformed San Francisco's political landscape and its neighborhoods in ways seldom appreciated. But as sex radicals became more vi. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Sex customs -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
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Sex customs. |
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California -- San Francisco. |
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History. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books -- History.
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History.
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Electronic books -- History.
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Subject |
Sexual practices. |
Other Form: |
Print version: Sides, Josh, 1972- Erotic city. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780195377811 (DLC) 2009002743 (OCoLC)302414527 |
ISBN |
9780199703395 (electronic book) |
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0199703396 (electronic book) |
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