David Geiringer

The Pope and the pill (eBook, ePUB)

Sex, Catholicism and women in post-war England

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is about the sexual and religious lives of Catholic women in post-war England. It uses original oral history material to uncover the way Catholic women negotiated spiritual and sexual demands at a moment when the two increasingly seemed at odds with each other. It also examines the public pronouncements and secretive internal documents of the central Catholic Church, offering a ground-breaking new explanation of the Pope's decision to prohibit the Pill in 1968. The material gathered here offers a fresh perspective on the idea that 'sex killed God', reframing dominant approaches to the histories of sex, religion and social change. The book will be essential reading not only for scholars of sexuality, religion, gender and oral history, but anyone interested in social and cultural change more broadly.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526138408
• Artikelnr.: 57959934

Autorenporträt

David Geiringer is Associate Lecturer in Contemporary History at Queen Mary University of London

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Uncovering the sex lives of Catholic women 2 The Catholic
Church's understanding of female sexuality 3 Sexuality in later marriage 4
Sexuality in early marriage 5 Early life and pre-marital sexuality
Conclusion Index