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OverviewIn this book Hera Cook traces the path of sexuality in England, and shows how its route was determined by the gradual exertion of control over fertility. Most sexual activity had major economic and social costs, the most fundamental of which was the physical cost of children upon women's bodies. Around 1800 birth rates reached historical heights. Using a combination of demographic and qualitative sources, Dr Cook examines the connection between the struggle to lower fertility and the increasing repression of sexuality throughout the nineteenth century. Contraception became a viable option in the early twentieth century. The book charts the resulting slow relaxation of attitudes to sexuality and the remaking of heterosexual physical behaviour, culminating in the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hera Cook (Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.30cm Weight: 0.658kg ISBN: 9780199252183ISBN 10: 0199252181 Pages: 428 Publication Date: 07 July 2005 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational 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 Contents"Part I. The Development of Contraception 1: Birth Rates and Women's Bodies: Reproductive Labour 2: 'Nature is a Blind, Dirty, Old Toad': The Withdrawal Method 3: 'Conferring a Premium on the Destruction of Female Morals': Fertility Control and Sexuality in the Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century 4: 'One Man is as Good as Another in that Respect': Women and Sexual Abstinence 5: 'Mastering the Sexual Self': Contraception and Sexuality 1890s-1950s 6: 'Physical ""Open Secrets""': Hygiene, Masturbation, Bowel Control, and Abstinence Part II. Sexuality and Sex Manuals 7: English Sexuality in the Twentieth Century: Ignorance and Gendered Sexual Cultures 8: 'The Wonderful Tides': Sexual Emotion and Sexual Ignorance in the 1920s 9: 'The Spontaneous Feeling of Shame': Masturbation and Freud 1930-1940 10: 'Thought Control': Conjugal Rights and Vaginal Orgasms 1940s-1970 11: 'The Vagina, too, Responds': Vaginal Orgasms, Clitoral Masturbation, Feminism, and Sex Research 1920-1975 Part III. The English Sexual Revolution 12: Sexual Pleasure, Contraception, and Fertility Decline 13: 'Truly it Felt Like Year One': The English Sexual Revolution 14: Population Control or 'Sex on the Rates'? Political Change 1955-1975 15: 'A Car or a Wife'? The Northern European Marriage System and the Sexual Revolution Conclusion: Living through Changing Sexual Mores Appendices Bibliography Index"ReviewsHera Cook's study of English Women, sex and contraception, is a welcome reminder of the struggle for sexual reform...a book full of useful information. Shaile Rowbotham, The English Historical Review This is an admirable book ... It is refreshing to find a monograph that is soundly researched, logically argued, and women-centered, on, of all subjects, women and sex. Judith S. Lewis, Journal of Social History ...a fascinating examination of sexual attitudes, practices, discourses and debates ... Expressed clearly but subtly, and clinically but sensitively, with many original insights and provocative explanations. M.L. Bush, History This is an ambitious and genuinely challenging book...[it] represents a productive intervention in ongoing debates in the history of sexuality. We would do well to take up the challenges posed by Hera Cook's work. Matt Houlbrook, History Workshop Journal Cook's compelling and convincing conclusions will reshape our understanding of nineteenth and twentieth-century sexuality. It is a refreshing challenge and essential reading. Anna Clark, American Historical Review ...a bold and ambitious book...essential bed-time reading. Local Population Studies, No. 78 Hera Cook's study of English Women, sex and contraception, is a welcome reminder of the struggle for sexual reform...a book full of useful information. Shaile Rowbotham, The English Historical Review This is an admirable book ... It is refreshing to find a monograph that is soundly researched, logically argued, and women-centered, on, of all subjects, women and sex. Judith S. Lewis, Journal of Social History ...a fascinating examination of sexual attitudes, practices, discourses and debates ... Expressed clearly but subtly, and clinically but sensitively, with many original insights and provocative explanations. M.L. Bush, History This is an ambitious and genuinely challenging book...[it] represents a productive intervention in ongoing debates in the history of sexuality. We would do well to take up the challenges posed by Hera Cook's work. Matt Houlbrook, History Workshop Journal Cook's compelling and convincing conclusions will reshape our understanding of nineteenth and twentieth-century sexuality. It is a refreshing challenge and essential reading. Anna Clark, American Historical Review ...a bold and ambitious book...essential bed-time reading. 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