Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880
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Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880

About this book

Sexual attitudes and behaviour have changed radically in Britain between the Victorian era and the twenty-first century. However, Lesley A. Hall reveals how slow and halting the processes of change have been, and how many continuities have persisted under a façade of modernity. Thoroughly revised, updated and expanded, the second edition of this established text:
• explores a wide range of relevant topics including marriage, homosexuality, commercial sex, media representations, censorship, sexually transmitted diseases and sex education
• features an entirely new last chapter which brings the narrative right up to the present day
• provides fresh insights by bringing together further original research and recent scholarship in the area. Lively and authoritative, this is an essential volume for anyone studying the history of sexual culture in Britain during a period of rapid social change.

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Information

Publisher
Red Globe Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780230297814
eBook ISBN
9781137292681
Edition
2
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 The Victorian Background
  9. 2 Social Purity and Evolving Sex in the 1880s
  10. 3 Scientific Sex, Unspeakable Oscar, and Insurgent Women in the ‘Naughty Nineties’
  11. 4 Degenerating Nation? Anxieties and Protests in a New Century
  12. 5 Divorce, Disease, and War
  13. 6 Roars of Rebellion, Roars of Reaction: The Ambivalences of the Twenties
  14. 7 Population Fears and Progressive Agendas During the Thirties
  15. 8 War and the Welfare State
  16. 9 Domestic Ideology and Undercurrents of Change in the Fifties
  17. 10 Swinging? For Whom? The Sixties and Seventies
  18. 11 Approaching the Millennium
  19. 12 Into a New Millennium: Changes and Continuities
  20. Coda: Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain: What Next for the Historian?
  21. Notes
  22. Recommended further reading
  23. Index