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The long sexual revolution : English women, sex, and contraception, 1800-1975 /
Hera Cook traces the path of sexuality in England, and shows how its route was determined by the gradual exertion of control over fertility.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.