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OverviewSexual Politics explores the complex relationship between sexuality and socialist politics in Britain between the 1880s and the present day. Looking at birth control, abortion law reform, and gay rights, this is a timely examination of the relationship between the personal and the political over the last century and a half. Stephen Brooke tells the stories of individuals such as Edward Carpenter, Dora Russell, Sheila Rowbotham, Ken Livingstone, Peter Tatchell, and Tony Blair, and organizations like the Workers' Birth Control Group, the Abortion Law Reform Association, the National Abortion Campaign, and the Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights. Sexual radicalism, first and second wave feminism, and gay liberation all feature in the book's portrait of the progress of sexual politics from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. Sexual Politics also offers an analysis of the Labour Party's long and sometimes ambiguous link to issues of sexuality, ending with the considerable contribution made to sex reform by the New Labour governments of 1997 to 2010. Sexual issues were always under the surface of Labour politics in the twentieth century, emerging forcefully in the 1970s and 1980s in a way that brought both division and unity to the party. Brooke stresses the importance of class and gender identity to the fate of sexual issues in British politics, the dynamic nature of British socialism, and the impact of sexual radicalism, feminism, and gay liberation upon socialist and working-class politics. Sexual Politics argues that the shifting relationship between the personal and the political is a central element of twentieth-century British history, a relationship that helped define the character of political modernity. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen Brooke (Professor, Department of History, York University, Toronto)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.20cm Weight: 0.464kg ISBN: 9780199680979ISBN 10: 0199680973 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 02 May 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: '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 IndexReviews<br> Stephen Brooke's sophisticated study, Sexual Politics, persuasively shows how class shaped sexual reform and how sexual change in turn reshaped social identities. His analysis spans the late nineteenth century to the present, examining this dynamic as it developed in distinct yet linked moments in a longer history. -Journal of British Studies<p><br> a much needed intervention in the history of politics and sexuality in the 20th century - a book which students and researchers of the subject will find essential and also, due to the clarity of the argument and lucidity of tone, enjoyable ... a book which should provoke debate and focus minds for years to come. * Charles Smith, Reviews in History * [Brooke] convincingly argues that bringing sexuality into politics might not just result in accommodation from the centre, but a gradual, powerful transformation of that centre. * Times Literary Supplement * Highly recommended. * H. L. Smith, CHOICE * Review from previous edition Stephen Brooke's work is a fascinating and important contribution...Full of colourful nuggets of history, Brooke pieces together a detailed account of how British leftists made their peace with sexual politics, and found their own ways to be equality pioneers. * Olivia Bailey, Renewal * Review from previous edition Stephen Brooke's work is a fascinating and important contribution...Full of colourful nuggets of history, Brooke pieces together a detailed account of how British leftists made their peace with sexual politics, and found their own ways to be equality pioneers. Olivia Bailey, Renewal Highly recommended. H. L. Smith, CHOICE [Brooke] convincingly argues that bringing sexuality into politics might not just result in accommodation from the centre, but a gradual, powerful transformation of that centre. Times Literary Supplement a much needed intervention in the history of politics and sexuality in the 20th century - a book which students and researchers of the subject will find essential and also, due to the clarity of the argument and lucidity of tone, enjoyable ... a book which should provoke debate and focus minds for years to come. Charles Smith, Reviews in History `Review from previous edition Stephen Brooke's work is a fascinating and important contribution...Full of colourful nuggets of history, Brooke pieces together a detailed account of how British leftists made their peace with sexual politics, and found their own ways to be equality pioneers.' Olivia Bailey, Renewal `Highly recommended.' H. L. Smith, CHOICE `[Brooke] convincingly argues that bringing sexuality into politics might not just result in accommodation from the centre, but a gradual, powerful transformation of that centre.' Times Literary Supplement `a much needed intervention in the history of politics and sexuality in the 20th century - a book which students and researchers of the subject will find essential and also, due to the clarity of the argument and lucidity of tone, enjoyable ... a book which should provoke debate and focus minds for years to come.' Charles Smith, Reviews in History Author InformationStephen 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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