Sexual politics : sexuality, family planning, and the British left from the 1880s to the present day / Stephen Brooke.
Brooke, Stephen.
2011
HQ18.G7 B76 2011 (Mapit)
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Title Sexual politics : sexuality, family planning, and the British left from the 1880s to the present day / Stephen Brooke.
Author Brooke, Stephen.
ISBN 9780199680979 paperback
0199680973 paperback
9780199562541
0199562547
Publication Details Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description xii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number HQ18.G7 B76 2011
Summary This title explores the complex relationship between sexuality and socialist politics in Britain, arguing that sexuality has been a key, though often neglected aspect of party politics in the 150 years. It also explores the relationship between the personal and the political in a wide-ranging study of British society.
Note This title explores the complex relationship between sexuality and socialist politics in Britain, arguing that sexuality has been a key, though often neglected aspect of party politics in the 150 years. It also explores the relationship between the personal and the political in a wide-ranging study of British society.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-276) and index.
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1. Beginnings: Socialism and Sexual Reform, 1880s to 1920s
pt. 1 Back Streets 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
pt. 2 Roads To 1967
5. S̀ilent', M̀odern' Revolution? The Family, Femininity, and Reproductive Politics in the 1940s and 1950s
6. Labour and the L̀iberal Hour', 1956-67: Abortion, Family Planning, and Homosexual Law Reform
pt. 3 Roads From 1967
7. Second Wave Feminism, Labour, and the Defence of the Abortion Act, 1967-90
8. Thirty Years War? Gay Rights and the Labour Party, 1967-97.

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