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Sexual politics : sexuality, family planning, and the British left from the 1880s to the present day / Stephen Brooke

By: Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.Description: xii, 284 p. : 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780199680979
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.70941 BRO
Contents:
Table of contents INTRODUCTION: 'YOUR SEX LIFE IS POLITICAL' ; 1. Beginnings: Socialism and Sexual Reform, 1880s to 1920s ; PART 1: BACKSTREETS AND UTOPIAS BETWEEN THE WARS ; 2. Clash: The Labour Party and Birth Control, 1923 to 1930 ; 3. Writing and Living New Worlds: Socialism, Sex, and Emotions ; 4. Abortion and Working-Class Politics in the 1930s ; PART 2: ROADS TO 1967 ; 5. A 'Silent', 'Modern' Revolution? The Family, Femininity, and Reproductive Politics in the 1940s and 1950s ; 6. Labour and the 'Liberal Hour', 1956-67: Abortion, Family Planning, and Homosexual Law Reform ; PART 3: ROADS FROM 1967 ; 7. Second Wave Feminism, Labour, and the Defence of the Abortion Act, 1967-90 ; 8. A Thirty Years War? Gay Rights and the Labour Party, 1967-97 ; Conclusion: Endings or Beginnings? New Labour, Sexuality, and Reproductive Politics, 1997 to 2010 ; Bibliography ; Index
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Table of contents
INTRODUCTION: 'YOUR SEX LIFE IS POLITICAL' ; 1. Beginnings: Socialism and Sexual Reform, 1880s to 1920s ; PART 1: BACKSTREETS AND UTOPIAS BETWEEN THE WARS ; 2. Clash: The Labour Party and Birth Control, 1923 to 1930 ; 3. Writing and Living New Worlds: Socialism, Sex, and Emotions ; 4. Abortion and Working-Class Politics in the 1930s ; PART 2: ROADS TO 1967 ; 5. A 'Silent', 'Modern' Revolution? The Family, Femininity, and Reproductive Politics in the 1940s and 1950s ; 6. Labour and the 'Liberal Hour', 1956-67: Abortion, Family Planning, and Homosexual Law Reform ; PART 3: ROADS FROM 1967 ; 7. Second Wave Feminism, Labour, and the Defence of the Abortion Act, 1967-90 ; 8. A Thirty Years War? Gay Rights and the Labour Party, 1967-97 ; Conclusion: Endings or Beginnings? New Labour, Sexuality, and Reproductive Politics, 1997 to 2010 ; Bibliography ; Index