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Winner of the Bonnie and Vern L. Bullough Award of the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
Erotic City
Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco
Josh Sides
304 pages
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40 hts
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156x234mm
978-0-19-987406-4
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Paperback
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26 January 2012
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- Winner of the Bonnie and Vern L. Bullough Book Award of the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
- Posits the role of sexuality and morality in the transformation of postwar American cities, moving beyond the white-flight thesis.
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 visible in the public spaces of the city, many San Franciscans reacted violently. The assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were but the most brazen acts in a city caught up in a battle over morality, a battle that often spilled over onto sidewalk violence against free-love hippies, gays and lesbians. It was a moral conflict exploited by Richard Nixon and the Republican Party, and seized by Hollywood as a flamboyant backdrop for a raft of vigilante movies, most notably the Dirty Harry series set in San Francisco.
Perhaps most important, Josh Sides illuminates the many ways that human desire has shaped the destiny of postwar San Francisco—and much of postwar urban America. Indeed, he shows that one cannot understand the
American city—nor modern America politics—without taking into account both the real and the imagined transformation of our urban areas into repositories of sexual desire.Readership: Those interested in urban history, history of sexuality, California history
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Josh Sides, Whitsett Professor of California History and Director of the Center for Southern California Studies, California State University, Northridge Josh Sides is the Whitsett Professor of California History and the Director of the Center for Southern California Studies at California State University, Northridge. He is the author of L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present.
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Introduction: Fred Methner's Street
1 What's Become of the Paris of the West?
2 Sex Radicals and Captive Pedestrians
3 When the Streets Went Gay
4 The Unspoken Sexuality of Golden Gate Park
5 Taking Back the Streets of San Francisco
6 The Many Legacies of AIDS
7 Newcomers, New Revolutionaries, and New Spaces
Epilogue: Where the Wild Things Still Are
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Archival Sources
Notes
Index
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