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The sexual geographies of reading in post-war London (2002)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (2002). The sexual geographies of reading in post-war London. Gender, Place and Culture, 9(4), 371-384. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369022000024650

This article examines the way in which the spaces, practices and pleasures of reading books became inscribed within a heteronormative geographical imaginary in Britain after the end of the Second World War. The active state provision of cultural welf... Read More about The sexual geographies of reading in post-war London.

Local authority housing stock transfer in the UK: From local initiative to national policy (2002)
Journal Article
Malpass, P., & Mullins, D. (2002). Local authority housing stock transfer in the UK: From local initiative to national policy. Housing Studies, 17(4), 673-686. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673030220144402

Since 1988 stock transfer has been transformed from a local initiative into a central part of government policy for housing in the UK. It began as a largely rural and suburban phenomenon, generating substantial capital receipts, but has also become a... Read More about Local authority housing stock transfer in the UK: From local initiative to national policy.

Classical and contemporary Italy in Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster (1570) (2002)
Journal Article
Ord, M. (2002). Classical and contemporary Italy in Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster (1570). Renaissance Studies, 16(2), 202-216. https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-4658.00011

This article seeks to show that a consideration of the use of Italy in Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster (1570) is illuminated by a study of the structural progression of book 1 (from educational methodologies, to a declamation against courtly vices, t... Read More about Classical and contemporary Italy in Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster (1570).

Big Brother: Reconfiguring the ‘active’ audience of cultural studies? (2002)
Journal Article
Tincknell, E., & Raghuram, P. (2002). Big Brother: Reconfiguring the ‘active’ audience of cultural studies?. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 5(2), 199-215. https://doi.org/10.1177/1364942002005002159

The emergence of a relatively new genre, ‘reality television’, has helped to break down the division between text and audience in significant ways, and this presents us with interesting questions for cultural studies. In this article we consider one... Read More about Big Brother: Reconfiguring the ‘active’ audience of cultural studies?.