A pioneering study which has become an established classic in its field, Sex, Politics and Society offers a comprehensive analysis of the transformations of British sexual life from 1800 to today. Fully updated, this fourth edition examines key new developments and will inspire all readers in history, sociology, and critical sexuality studies.
A pioneering study which has become an established classic in its field, Sex, Politics and Society offers a comprehensive analysis of the transformations of British sexual life from 1800 to today. Fully updated, this fourth edition examines key new developments and will inspire all readers in history, sociology, and critical sexuality studies.
Jeffrey Weeks is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at London South Bank University, UK. He has an international reputation for work on the history and sociology of sexuality. His previous publications include The World We Have Won (2007), The Languages of Sexuality (2011), What is Sexual History ? (2016), Coming Out (3rd edition, 2016), and Sexuality (4th edition, 2017).
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CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Sexuality and the historian Introduction Histories of sexuality Sexuality and power Sexuality and the politics of history The making of 'modern' sexuality 2. 'That damned morality': sex in Victorian ideology Victorian sexuality: myths and meanings Emergent patterns The domestic ideology Sex and class 3. The sacramental family: middle-class men, women and children Masculinity and femininity Birth control Childhood 4. Sexuality and the labouring classes Middle-class myths, working-class realities Traditions, illegitimacy and proletarianisation The patterns of family life Respectability and its discontents 5. The public and the private: moral regulation in the Victorian period Forms of moral regulation Private morality, public vice Reform or control? 6. The construction of homosexuality Homosexuality: concepts and consequences The sins of sodom Moral, legal and medical regulation Identities and ways of life Intimate lives 7. The population question in the early twentieth century Population politics Maternalism Eugenics The influence of eugenics 8. The theorisation of sex A new continent of knowledge Sex, science and society Havelock Ellis and sex research The impact of Freud 9. Feminism and socialism Sexual radicalism and its limits Feminism and sexuality The morals of socialism 10. Sex psychology and birth control Sex psychology International movements Parenthood and birth control 11. Towards a conservative modernity A 'glorious unfolding'? Domesticity and family life Protecting purity Psychology and sex delinquency 12. The state and sexuality Welfare and citizenship Reproducing the population Towards the complementary marriage 'Wolfenden' and sexual liberalism 13. The permissive moment The transition 'Permissiveness' Youth Women Ideologies The political moment The limits of permissiveness 14. Personal politics and moral conservatism The ebbing tide Second-wave feminism The challenge of gay liberation The new moralism The Thatcherite experiment The AIDS crisis 15. The changing landscape of sexuality and gender Intimate pleasures Doing families A gender revolution? 16. Diversity, agency and citizenship The changing world of LGBT people Becoming ordinary Multicultural Britain? Live and let love Index
CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Sexuality and the historian Introduction Histories of sexuality Sexuality and power Sexuality and the politics of history The making of 'modern' sexuality 2. 'That damned morality': sex in Victorian ideology Victorian sexuality: myths and meanings Emergent patterns The domestic ideology Sex and class 3. The sacramental family: middle-class men, women and children Masculinity and femininity Birth control Childhood 4. Sexuality and the labouring classes Middle-class myths, working-class realities Traditions, illegitimacy and proletarianisation The patterns of family life Respectability and its discontents 5. The public and the private: moral regulation in the Victorian period Forms of moral regulation Private morality, public vice Reform or control? 6. The construction of homosexuality Homosexuality: concepts and consequences The sins of sodom Moral, legal and medical regulation Identities and ways of life Intimate lives 7. The population question in the early twentieth century Population politics Maternalism Eugenics The influence of eugenics 8. The theorisation of sex A new continent of knowledge Sex, science and society Havelock Ellis and sex research The impact of Freud 9. Feminism and socialism Sexual radicalism and its limits Feminism and sexuality The morals of socialism 10. Sex psychology and birth control Sex psychology International movements Parenthood and birth control 11. Towards a conservative modernity A 'glorious unfolding'? Domesticity and family life Protecting purity Psychology and sex delinquency 12. The state and sexuality Welfare and citizenship Reproducing the population Towards the complementary marriage 'Wolfenden' and sexual liberalism 13. The permissive moment The transition 'Permissiveness' Youth Women Ideologies The political moment The limits of permissiveness 14. Personal politics and moral conservatism The ebbing tide Second-wave feminism The challenge of gay liberation The new moralism The Thatcherite experiment The AIDS crisis 15. The changing landscape of sexuality and gender Intimate pleasures Doing families A gender revolution? 16. Diversity, agency and citizenship The changing world of LGBT people Becoming ordinary Multicultural Britain? Live and let love Index
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