Queer domesticities : homosexuality and home life in twentieth-century London / Matt Cook, Senior Lecturer in History and Gender Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

xiii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Beautiful homes -- Introduction -- Domestic passions : unpacking the homes of Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts -- Queer interiors: from C.R.Ashbee to Oliver Ford -- Part II. Queer families -- George Ives, queer lives and the family -- Joe Randolph Ackerley's "family values" -- Part III. Outsiders inside : finding room in the city -- Remembering bedsitterland : Rex Batten, Carl Marshall and Alan Louis -- Homes fit for homos : Joe Orton's queer domestic -- Part IV. Taking sexual politics home -- "Gay times" : the Brixton squatters -- Derek Jarman's domestic politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.