Title The long sexual revolution : English women, sex, and contraception 1800-1975 / Hera Cook

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 412) : illustrations 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 Notes Originally published: 2004 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-391) and index Notes Print version record Subject 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 -- England -- History Birth control. Contraception. Fertility, Human. Sex customs. Women -- Sexual behavior. England. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 0199252394 9780199252398 9780199252183 0199252181

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