Sex, politics, and society
Subtitle: the regulation of sexuality since 1800
By: Jeffrey Weeks
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: Themes in British social history
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9781408248300
Subjects: Moral conditions; Sex customs; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the first edition; title: Preface to the third edition; title: Acknowledgements to the first edition; title: Acknowledgements to the third edition; title: Publisher's acknowledgements; title: Sexuality and the historian; title: 'That damned morality' : sexuality in victorian ideology; title: The sacramental family : middle-class men, women, and children; title: Sexuality and the labouring classes; title: The public and the private : moral regulation in the victorian period; title: The construction of homosexuality; title: The population question in the early twentieth century; title: The theorisation of sex; title: Feminism and socialism; title: Sex psychology and birth control; title: Towards a conservative modernity; title: The state and sexuality; title: The permissive moment; title: Personal politics and moral conservatism; title: A new world?; title: Index.