The Long Sexual Revolution

English Women, Sex, and Contraception 1800-1975

Hera Cook (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

426 Seiten

2004
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-925239-8 (ISBN)

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Between 1800 and 1975, sexuality in the West was transformed. This book shows how the growing effectiveness of contraception gradually eroded the connection between sexuality and reproduction. It charts how, why, and when attitudes towards sex changed from the repression of the nineteenth century to the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

In this book Hera Cook traces the path of sexuality in England, and shows how its route was determined by the gradual exertion of control over fertility. Most sexual activity had major economic and social costs, the most fundamental of which was the physical cost of children upon women's bodies. Around 1800 birth rates reached historical heights. Using a combination of demographic and qualitative sources, Dr Cook examines the connection between the struggle to lower fertility and the increasing repression of sexuality throughout the nineteenth century. Contraception became a viable option in the early twentieth century. The book charts the resulting slow relaxation of attitudes to sexuality and the remaking of heterosexual physical behaviour, culminating in the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

PART I. THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONTRACEPTION ; 1. Birth Rates and Women's Bodies: Reproductive Labour ; 2. 'Nature is a dirty, blind, old toad': The Withdrawal Method ; 3. 'Conferring a premium on the destruction of female morals': Fertility Control and Sexuality in the Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century ; 4. 'One man is as good as another in that respect': Women and Sexual Abstinence ; 5. 'Mastering the sexual self': Contraception and Sexuality 1890s-1950s ; 6. 'Physical "open secrets"': Hygiene, Masturbation, Bowel Control, and Abstinence ; PART II. SEXUALITY AND SEX MANUALS ; 7. English Sexuality in the Twentieth Century: Ignorance and Gendered Sexual Cultures ; 8. 'The wonderful tides': Sexual Ignorance and Sexual Emotion, the 1920s ; 9. 'The spontaneous feeling of shame': Masturbation and Freud, 1930-1940 ; 10. 'Thought control': Conjugal Rights and Vaginal Orgasms, 1940s-1970 ; 11. 'The vagina, too, responds': Vaginal Orgasm, Clitoral Masturbation, Feminism, and Sex Research 1965-1975 ; PART III. THE ENGLISH SEXUAL REVOLUTION ; 12. Sexual Pleasure, Contraception, and Fertility Decline ; 13. 'Truly it felt like year one': The English Sexual Revolution ; 14. Population Control or 'Sex on the Rates'? Political Change 1955-1975 ; 15. 'A Car or a Wife'? The Northern European Marriage System and the Sexual Revolution ; Conclusion ; Appendices ; Bibliography ; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2004
Zusatzinfo	4 figures & numerous tables
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 239 mm
Gewicht	737 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Partnerschaft / Sexualität
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
ISBN-10	0-19-925239-4 / 0199252394
ISBN-13	978-0-19-925239-8 / 9780199252398
Zustand	Neuware