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Koven, S.: Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London. |
 | | In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, powerfully shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understandings of poverty and social welfare, gender relations, and sexuality. |
| | The slums of late-Victorian London became synonymous with all that was wrong with industrial capitalist society. |
| | Slumming allowed them to act on their irresistible "attraction of repulsion" for the poor and permitted them, with society's approval, to get dirty and express their own "dirty" desires for intimacy with slum dwellers and, sometimes, with one another. |
| press.princeton.edu /titles/7850.html (607 words) |
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