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Title: THE POISONED BOWL
SEX AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL
By: Alisdare Hickson, George Melly (Foreword)
Format: Paperback

List price: £12.99


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ISBN 10: 0715627090
ISBN 13: 9780715627099
Publisher: DUCKWORTH OVERLOOK
Pub. date: 1 May, 1996
Pages: 256
Description: A history of sex in public schools, containing reminiscences of 100 contributors, including Alan Ayckbourn, Quentin Crisp and Lindsay Anderson, and numerous academics, MPs and religious figures. The book charts the many ludicrous ways public schools have attempted to control sexuality.
Synopsis: This is an anecdotal hisotry of sex in public schools, containing the reminiscences of over 100 contributors, including Alan Ayckbourn, Quentin Crisp, the late film director, Lindsay Anderson, and numerous sundry generals, academics, religious figures and Members of Parliament. With recollections on events from petting in the boathouse at Lancing to prostitution at Eton, the book charts the many ludicrous ways public schools have attempted tp control sexuality. The book provides a history of homosexuality in the English public school system and the hysteria that raged through public schools for more than a century.
Illustrations: 12pp plates
Publication: UK
Imprint: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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