| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 412 pages) |
| Contents |
pt. I: Inventing contraception. Birth rates and women's bodies : reproductive labour -- "Nature is a blind dirty old toad" : the withdrawal method -- "Conferring a premium on the destruction of female morals" : fertility control and sexuality in the early to mid-nineteenth century -- "One man is as good as another in that respect" : women and sexual abstinence -- Mastering the sexual self : contraception and sexuality, 1890s-1950s -- "Physical 'open secrets'" : hygiene, masturbation, bowel control, and abstinence -- pt. II: Sexuality and sex manuals. English sexuality in the twentieth century : ignorance, silence, and gendered sexual cultures -- "The wonderful tides" : sexual emotion and sexual ignorance in the 1920s -- "The spontaneous feeling of shame" : masturbation and Freud, 1930-1940 -- "Thought control" : conjugal rights and vaginal orgasms, 1940s-1960s -- "The vagina, too, responds" : vaginal orgasms, clitoral masturbation, feminism, and sex research, 1920-1975 -- pt. III: The English sexual revolution. Sexual pleasure, contraception, and fertility decline -- "Truly it felt like year one" : the English sexual revolution -- Population control or "sex on the rates"? : political change, 1955-1975 -- "A car or a wife?" : the northern European marriage system and the sexual revolution -- Conclusion: Living through changing sexual mores -- Appendix A: Analysis of the sex manual authors -- Appendix B: List of sex manual authors |
| Summary |
Hera Cook traces the path of sexuality in England, and shows how its route was determined by the gradual exertion of control over fertility |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Birth control -- England -- History -- 19th century
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Birth control -- England -- History -- 20th century
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Fertility, Human -- England -- History -- 19th century
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Fertility, Human -- England -- History -- 20th century
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Women -- Sexual behavior -- England -- History -- 19th century
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Women -- Sexual behavior -- England -- History -- 20th century
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Sex customs -- England -- History -- 19th century
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Sex customs -- England -- History -- 20th century
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Contraception -- history
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Contraceptive Agents -- history
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Contraceptive Devices -- history
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Sexual Behavior -- history
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography.
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Birth control.
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Fertility, Human.
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Sex customs.
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Women -- Sexual behavior.
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Empfängnisverhütung
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Frau
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Sexuelle Revolution
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Vrouwen.
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Seksueel gedrag.
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Anticonceptie.
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Régulation des naissances.
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Fécondité
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Contraception.
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19e siècle.
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20e siècle.
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Comportement sexuel.
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Femme.
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Sexualité féminine.
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Histoire.
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| SUBJECT |
England |
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England.
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Großbritannien
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Angleterre.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191530890 |
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0191530891 |
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9780199252398 |
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0199252394 |
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1280965207 |
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9781280965203 |
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9786610965205 |
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661096520X |
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