Stephen Brooke

Sexual Politics

Sexuality, Family Planning, and the British Left from the 1880s to the Present Day

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Produktbeschreibung

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 last century and a half. It also explores the relationship between the personal and the political in a wide-ranging study of British society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 167mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780199562541
• ISBN-10: 0199562547
• Artikelnr.: 33722547

Autorenporträt

Stephen Brooke has been a co-editor of the journal Twentieth-Century British History since 2004 and managing editor since 2010. He has also served on the editorial boards of Contemporary British History and the Journal of British Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: 'Your Sex Life is Political'
* 1: Beginnings: Socialism and Sexual Reform, 1880s to 1920s
* 2: Clash: The Labour Party and Birth Control in the 1920s
* 3: Writing and Living New Worlds: Socialism, Sex and Emotions
* 4: Abortion and Working-Class Politics in the 1930s
* Section II: 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
* Section III: 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
* Archival Sources and Select Bibliography
* Index