Birth control, sex and marriage in Britain, 1918-1960 /

The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a revolution in contraceptive behaviour as the large Victorian family disappeared. This book offers a new perspective on the gender relations, sexual attitudes, and contraceptive practices that accompanied the emergence of the smaller family in moder...

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Main Author: Fisher, Kate
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Summary:The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a revolution in contraceptive behaviour as the large Victorian family disappeared. This book offers a new perspective on the gender relations, sexual attitudes, and contraceptive practices that accompanied the emergence of the smaller family in modern Britain. Kate Fisher draws on a range of first-hand evidence, including over 190 oral history interviews, in which individuals born between 1900 and 1930 described their marriages andsexual relationships. By using individual testimony she challenges many of the key conditions that have long been e.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 294 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-280) and index.
ISBN:9780191533068
0191533068
0199267367
9780199267361