Sexual politics : sexuality, family planning, and the British left from the 1880s to the present day /

This title 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 150 years. It also explores the relationship between the personal and the political in a wide-ranging study...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brooke, Stephen
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:	Labour Party (Great Britain) > History. Labour Party (Great Britain) Sex > Political aspects > Great Britain > History > 20th century. Socialist ethics > Great Britain > History. Great Britain > Social policy > History. Socialist ethics > History. Sexualité > Aspect politique > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle. Morale socialiste > Histoire. Grande-Bretagne > Politique sociale > Histoire. Great Britain. Europe. HISTORY. 20th Century. Modern. 21st Century. Social History. Sex > Political aspects Social policy Socialist ethics Great Britain 1900-1999 Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

1. Beginnings: Socialism and Sexual Reform, 1880s to 1920s
pt. 1 Back Streets and Utopias Between the Wars
2. Clash: The Labour Party and Birth Control, 1923 to 1930
3. Writing and Living New Worlds: Socialism, Sex, and Emotions
4. Abortion and Working-Class Politics in the 1930s
pt. 2 Roads T0 1967
5. S̀ilent', M̀odern' Revolution? The Family, Femininity, and Reproductive Politics in the 1940s and 1950s
6. Labour and the L̀iberal Hour', 1956-67: Abortion, Family Planning, and Homosexual Law Reform
pt. 3 Roads From 1967
7. Second Wave Feminism, Labour, and the Defence of the Abortion Act, 1967-90
8. Thirty Years War? Gay Rights and the Labour Party, 1967-97.