Sex, gender and social change in Britain since 1880
By: Lesley A. Hall.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Sex customs -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Sex customs -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.; Social change -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Social change -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Description: "Though sexual attitudes and behaviour have changed radically in Britain since the mid-nineteenth century, Sex, Gender and Social Change shows how slow, and how halting, these processes of change have been. Lesley Hall reveals how issues which were arousing concern in the 1880s and 1890s continue to manifest in different forms as we enter the new millennium.

Topics covered include homosexuality, the increasing separation of sex from reproduction, the changing legal and social position of women, alterations in perceptions of (and laws affecting) marriage, concerns over sex education, anxieties about sexually transmitted diseases, and problems of censorship, as well as changes in beliefs, attitudes, and expectations.

These topics are not dealt with in isolation, but are shown to be part of dense and historically specific networks of ideas and attitudes which went to make up sexual culture in Britain during a period of rapid social change."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-235) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Victorian background; title: Social purity and evolving sex in the 1880s; title: Scientific sex, unspeakable Oscar, and insurgent women in the 'naughty nineties'; title: Degenerating nation? Anxieties and protests in an new century; title: Divorce, disease, and war; title: Roars of rebellion, roars of reaction: the ambivalences of the twenties; title: Population fears and progressive agendas during the thirties; title: War and the welfare state; title: Domestic ideology and undercurrents of change in the fifties; title: Swinging? For Whom? The sixties and seventies; title: Approaching the millennium.