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.
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.
Stephen Brooke is a Professor of History at the University of York, Toronto. He 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 * Part 1: Backstreets 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 * Part 2: 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 * Part 3: 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 * Bibliography * Index
* Introduction: 'Your Sex Life is Political' * 1: Beginnings: Socialism and Sexual Reform, 1880s to 1920s * Part 1: Backstreets 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 * Part 2: 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 * Part 3: 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 * Bibliography * Index
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