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The long sexual revolution : English women, sex, and contraception, 1800-1975
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"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 inc...
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Hera Cook
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004
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- xiii, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780199252398, 0199252394
- OCLC
- ocm53846852
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-391) and index.
- 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 -- 7. English Sexuality in the Twentieth Century: Ignorance, Silence, 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-1960s -- 11. 'The Vagina too, Responds': Vaginal Orgasms, Clitoral Masturbation, Feminism, and Sex Research 1920-1975 -- 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 -- App. A. Analysis of the Sex Manual Authors
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- Birth control -- England -- History -- 19th century.
- Birth control -- England -- History -- 20th century.
- Fertility, Human -- England -- History -- 19th century.
- Fertility, Human -- England -- History -- 20th century.
- Women -- Sexual behavior -- England -- History -- 19th century.
- Women -- Sexual behavior -- England -- History -- 20th century.
- Sex customs -- England -- History -- 19th century.
- Sex customs -- England -- History -- 20th century.
- Contraception -- history -- England.
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- Contraceptive Devices -- history -- England.
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- Contraceptive Agents -- history -- England.
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- Sexual Behavior -- history -- England.
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- Women -- history -- England.
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- History, 19th Century -- England.
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- History, 20th Century -- England.
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