Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Cook, Hera.

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

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xiii, 412 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Birth control -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Birth control.
England.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Birth control -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Fertility, Human -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Fertility, Human.
Fertility, Human -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- Sexual behavior -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Women -- Sexual behavior.
Women -- Sexual behavior -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Sex customs -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Sex customs.
Sex customs -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Contraception -- history.
Contraceptive Agents -- history.
Contraceptive Devices -- history.
Sexual Behavior -- history.
England.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Sexual practices.
Other Form: Print version: Cook, Hera. Long sexual revolution. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 0199252394 9780199252398 (DLC) 2003069138 (OCoLC)53846852
ISBN 9780191530890 (electronic book)
0191530891 (electronic book)
9780199252398
0199252394
0199252394
0199252181 (Paper)