The long sexual revolution English women, sex, and contraception, 1800-1975 Cook, Hera creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History enk Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2004 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xiii, 412 pages) Hera Cook traces the path of sexuality in England, and shows how its route was determined by the gradual exertion of control over fertility. pt. I: Inventing contraception. Birth rates and women's bodies : reproductive labour -- "Nature is a blind dirty old toad" : the withdrawal method -- "Conferring a premium on the destruction of female morals" : fertility control and sexuality in the early to mid-nineteenth century -- "One man is as good as another in that respect" : women and sexual abstinence -- Mastering the sexual self : contraception and sexuality, 1890s-1950s -- "Physical 'open secrets'" : hygiene, masturbation, bowel control, and abstinence -- pt. II: Sexuality and sex manuals. English sexuality in the twentieth century : ignorance, silence, and gendered sexual cultures -- "The wonderful tides" : sexual emotion and sexual ignorance in the 1920s -- "The spontaneous feeling of shame" : masturbation and Freud, 1930-1940 -- "Thought control" : conjugal rights and vaginal orgasms, 1940s-1960s -- "The vagina, too, responds" : vaginal orgasms, clitoral masturbation, feminism, and sex research, 1920-1975 -- pt. III: The English sexual revolution. Sexual pleasure, contraception, and fertility decline -- "Truly it felt like year one" : the English sexual revolution -- Population control or "sex on the rates"? : political change, 1955-1975 -- "A car or a wife?" : the northern European marriage system and the sexual revolution -- Conclusion: Living through changing sexual mores -- Appendix A: Analysis of the sex manual authors -- Appendix B: List of sex manual authors. Hera Cook. Includes bibliographical references and index. English. e-uk-en Birth control England History 19th century Birth control England History 20th century Fertility, Human England History 19th century Fertility, Human England History 20th century Women Sexual behavior England History 19th century Women Sexual behavior England History 20th century Sex customs England History 19th century Sex customs England History 20th century Contraception history Contraceptive Agents history Contraceptive Devices history Sexual Behavior history England Régulation des naissances Angleterre Histoire 19e siècle Régulation des naissances Angleterre Histoire 20e siècle Fécondité humaine Angleterre Histoire 19e siècle Fécondité humaine Angleterre Histoire 20e siècle Femmes Angleterre Sexualité Histoire 19e siècle Femmes Angleterre Sexualité Histoire 20e siècle Vie sexuelle Angleterre Histoire 19e siècle Vie sexuelle Angleterre Histoire 20e siècle Femmes Sexualité Angleterre Histoire 19e siècle Femmes Sexualité Angleterre Histoire 20e siècle SOCIAL SCIENCE Demography Birth control Fertility, Human Sex customs Women Sexual behavior England Empfängnisverhütung Frau Sexuelle Revolution Großbritannien Vrouwen Seksueel gedrag Anticonceptie Régulation des naissances Fécondité Contraception 19e siècle 20e siècle Comportement sexuel Femme Sexualité féminine Histoire Angleterre 1800-1999 fast HQ766.5.G7 C475 2004eb 304.6/66/0942 2004 D-691 HQ 766.5.G7 C771L 2004 306.70820942 15.70 Long sexual revolution Cook, Hera. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 (DLC) 2003069138 (OCoLC)53846852 9780191530890 0191530891 9780199252398 0199252394 1280965207 9781280965203 9786610965205 661096520X 0199252394 0199252181 9780199252183 0199252181 2003069138 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/27188 N$T 080221 20260318173230.1 in00005702614 eng