'Curing queers'

'Curing queers'Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive treatment for homosexuality and transvestism, and the perceptions and actions of the men and women who nursed them.

The first full-length study of the government of Hugo Chávez of Venezuela within wider discussions on populism and globalisation in Latin America

A global history of couple dancing in commercial venues in the era of the two world wars

This book provides an accessible

Examines how seventeenth-century English architectural theorists and designers rethought the domestic built environment

John Timberlake focuses on the notion of science fiction as an "imaginary topos

each chapter considers a different aspect of the trends and problems surrounding the international media

Extracts in the anthology stimulate questions rather than providing reassuring answers

carefully reconstructing the intellectual and political context of the work and unpacking its numerous analogies

songs and oral legends of Native American tribes from around the country

Frontier Crimes Regulation

These essays make parallels between areas of performance that are rarely

this well-researched volume fills a substantial gap in the market for critical works on Greek cinema in English