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1 online resource (xiii, 412 pages) |
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polychrome |
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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.
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Birth control. |
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England. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Birth control -- England -- History -- 20th century.
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Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Fertility, Human -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Fertility, Human. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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England. |
Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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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) |
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0191530891 (electronic book) |
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9780199252398 |
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0199252394 |
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0199252394 |
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0199252181 (Paper) |
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