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Author Cook, Hera, author.

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

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Descript 1 online resource (xiii, 412 pages)
Bibliog. 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.
Note English.
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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 -- history
Contraceptive Agents -- history
Contraceptive Devices -- history
Sexual Behavior -- history
England
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography.
Birth control. (OCoLC)fst00833148
Fertility, Human. (OCoLC)fst00923157
Sex customs. (OCoLC)fst01114306
Women -- Sexual behavior. (OCoLC)fst01176942
England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
Empfa⁺ngnisverhu⁺tung
Frau
Sexuelle Revolution
Gro©Ґbritannien
Vrouwen.
Seksueel gedrag.
Anticonceptie.
Re⁺ѓgulation des naissances.
Fe⁺ѓcondite⁺ѓ
Contraception.
19e sie⁺ђcle.
20e sie⁺ђcle.
Comportement sexuel.
Femme.
Sexualite⁺ѓ fe⁺ѓminine.
Histoire.
Angleterre.
1800-1999
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