Chapter 1 Introduction: Queer 1950s: Rethinking Sexuality in the Postwar Years

Chapter 2 The Long 1950s as Radical In-Between: The Photography of Herbert Tobias

Chapter 3 Nouveau Désordre: Diabolical Queerness in 1950s French Cinema

Chapter 4 Love ‘Off the Rails’ or ‘Over the Teacups’? Lesbian Desire and Female Sexualities in the 1950s British Popular Press

Chapter 5 ‘Someone to Love’: Teen Girls’ Same-Sex Desire in the 1950s United States

Chapter 6 Cross-Generational Relationships before ‘the Lesbian’: Female Same-Sex Sexuality in 1950s Rural Finland

Chapter 7 Moral Panic or Critical Mass? The Queer Contradictions of 1950s New Zealand

Chapter 8 Warm Homes in a Cold Climate: Rex Batten and the Queer Domestic

Chapter 9 Sexology Backward: Hirschfeld, Kinsey and the Reshaping of Sex Research in the 1950s

Chapter 11 Queer Profits: Homosexual Scandal and the Origins of Legal Reform in Britain

Chapter 12 Geeks and Gaffs: The Queer Legacy of the 1950s American Freak Show