The Long Sexual Revolution

English Women, Sex, and Contraception 1800-1975

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

AvHera Cook,University of Sydney) Cook, Hera (Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow

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In this book Hera Cook traces the path of sexuality in England, and shows how its route was determined by the gradual exertion of control over fertility. Most sexual activity had major economic and social costs, the most fundamental of which was the physical cost of children upon women's bodies. Around 1800 birth rates reached historical heights. Using a combination of demographic and qualitative sources, Dr Cook examines the connection between the struggle to lower fertility and the increasing repression of sexuality throughout the nineteenth century. Contraception became a viable option in the early twentieth century. The book charts the resulting slow relaxation of attitudes to sexuality and the remaking of heterosexual physical behaviour, culminating in the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2005-07-07
Mått156 x 233 x 24 mm
Vikt658 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor428
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199252183
UtmärkelserWinner of the 2004 Bonnie and Vern L. Bullough Award for the most distinguished book written for the professional sexological community

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PART I. THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONTRACEPTION ; 1. Birth Rates and Women's Bodies: Reproductive Labour ; 2. 'Nature is a Blind, Dirty, Old Toad': The Withdrawal Method ; 3. 'Conferring a Premium on the Destruction of Female Morals': Fertility Control and Sexuality in the Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century ; 4. 'One Man is as Good as Another in that Respect': Women and Sexual Abstinence ; 5. 'Mastering the Sexual Self': Contraception and Sexuality 1890s-1950s ; 6. 'Physical "Open Secrets"': Hygiene, Masturbation, Bowel Control, and Abstinence ; PART II. SEXUALITY AND SEX MANUALS ; 7. English Sexuality in the Twentieth Century: Ignorance and Gendered Sexual Cultures ; 8. 'The Wonderful Tides': Sexual Emotion and Sexual Ignorance in the 1920s ; 9. 'The Spontaneous Feeling of Shame': Masturbation and Freud 1930-1940 ; 10. 'Thought Control': Conjugal Rights and Vaginal Orgasms 1940s-1970 ; 11. 'The Vagina, too, Responds': Vaginal Orgasms, Clitoral Masturbation, Feminism, and Sex Research 1920-1975 ; PART III. THE ENGLISH SEXUAL REVOLUTION ; 12. Sexual Pleasure, Contraception, and Fertility Decline ; 13. 'Truly it Felt Like Year One': The English Sexual Revolution ; 14. Population Control or 'Sex on the Rates'? Political Change 1955-1975 ; 15. 'A Car or a Wife'? The Northern European Marriage System and the Sexual Revolution ; Conclusion: Living through Changing Sexual Mores ; Appendices ; Bibliography ; Index