Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880 - Hall, Lesley A.
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Though sexual attitudes and behaviour have changed radically in Britain since the mid-nineteenth century ‘Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880’ shows how slow, and how halting these processes of change have been. Lesley Hall reveals how issues which were arousing concern in the 1880s and 1890s continue to manifest in different forms as we enter the new millennium. Topics covered include homosexuality, the changing legal and social position of women, sex education and censorship. A major focus is the ambiguous and syncopated relationship between 'progressive' and 'reactionary'…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Though sexual attitudes and behaviour have changed radically in Britain since the mid-nineteenth century ‘Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880’ shows how slow, and how halting these processes of change have been. Lesley Hall reveals how issues which were arousing concern in the 1880s and 1890s continue to manifest in different forms as we enter the new millennium. Topics covered include homosexuality, the changing legal and social position of women, sex education and censorship. A major focus is the ambiguous and syncopated relationship between 'progressive' and 'reactionary' tendencies. Recent secondary literature is synthesised and new archival research incorporated.

Table of contents:
Introduction
The Victorian Background
Social Purity and Evolving Sex in the 1880s
Scientific Sex, Unspeakable Oscar and Insurgent Women in the 'Naughty Nineties'
Degenerating Nation? Anxieties and Protests in a New Century
Divorce, Disease and War: Radical Hiatus or Temporary Disturbance?
Roars of Rebellion, Roars of Reaction: The Ambivalences of the Twenties
Population Fears and Progressive Agendas During the Thirties
War and the Welfare State
Domestic Ideology and Undercurrents of Change in the Fifties
Swinging? For Whom? The Sixties and Seventies
Backlash and Regrouping: Towards the Millennium
Index
Autorenporträt
LESLEY A. HALL is Senior Assistant Archivist in the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre at the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London and an Honorary Lecturer in the History of Medicine at University College London.