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The long sexual revolution: English women, sex, and contraception, 1800-1975
Hera Cook
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Frontmatter
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List of Figures (page xi)
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List of Tables (page xii)
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Abbreviations (page xiv)
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Introduction (page 1)
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PART I Inventing Contraception
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1. Birth Rates and Women's Bodies: Reproductive Labor (page 11)
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2. 'Nature is a Blind Dirty Old Toad': The Withdrawal Method (page 40)
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3. 'Conferring a Premium on the Destruction of Female Morals': Fertility Control and Sexuality in the Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century (page 62)
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4. 'One Man is as Good as Another in that Respect': Women and Sexual Abstinence (page 90)
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5. Mastering the Sexual Self: Contraception and Sexuality 1890s-1950s (page 122)
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6. 'Physical "Open Secrets"': Hygiene, Masturbation, Bowel Control, and Abstinence (page 143)
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PART II Sexuality and Sex Manuals
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7. English Sexuality in the Twentieth Century: Ignorance, Silence, and Gendered Sexual Cultures (page 165)
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8. 'The Wonderful Tides': Sexual Emotion and Sexual Ignorance in the 1920s (page 187)
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9. 'The Spontaneous Feeling of Shame': Masturbation and Freud 1930-1940 (page 207)
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10. 'Thought Control': Conjugal Rights and Vaginal Orgasms 1940s-1960s (page 225)
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11. 'The Vagina too, Responds': Vaginal Orgasms, Clitoral Masturbation, Feminism, and Sex Research 1920-1975 (page 245)
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PART III The English Sexual Revolution
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12. Sexual Pleasure, Contraception, and Fertility Decline (page 263)
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13. 'Truly it Felt Like Year One': The English Sexual Revolution (page 271)
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14. Population Control or 'Sex on the Rates'? Political Change 1955-1975 (page 296)
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15. 'A Car or a Wife?' The Northern European Marriage System and the Sexual Revolution (page 318)
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Conclusion: Living through Changing Sexual Mores (page 338)
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Appendix A: Analysis of the Sex Manual Authors (page 341)
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Appendix B: List of Sex Manual Authors (page 347)
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Bibliography (page 355)
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Index (page 393)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JSocH | 38.4 (Summer 2005): 1134-1136 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3790508 |
PopS | 59.2 (Jul. 2005): 255-256 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/30040461 |
AHR | 110.1 (Feb. 2005): 222-223 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/531264 |
HWJ | 60 (Autumn 2005): 216-222 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/25472827 |
JIH | 37.2 (Autumn 2006): 280-281 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4139562 |
ENHR | 121.492 (Jun. 2006): 896-898 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3806395 |
JBRS | 44.4 (Oct. 2005): 871-873 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/497492 |
JSocH | 40.1 (Autumn 2006): 205-217 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4491861 |
BHM | 79.4 (Winter 2005): 842-843 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/v079/79.4tucker.html |
VS | 49.3(Spring 2007): 521-523 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/victorian_studies/v049/49.3bland.html |
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Published: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press
- 9780199252183 (paper)
- 9780199252398 (hardcover)