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Lesley Hall examines a range of specific areas in the context of the Victorian era, which saw major developments in issues of sex and gender. Topics discussed include social, political, legal, medical, psychological, sociological and scientific discourses around questions of sexuality, eugenics, birth control and abortion, homosexuality and lesbianism, venereal disease, prostitution, social purity, sex education, ideals of marriage and sexual relationship, censorship, the role of women and changing masculinities. A major focus is the ambiguous and syncopated relationship between "progressive" and "reactionary" tendencies. Secondary literature is synthesised and new archival research incorporated.
From the Author
This book covers the entire twentieth century
Sex, Gender and Social Change does not only deal with the Victorian era: while it includes a substantial introductory chapter on the Victorian background, and two chapters on the final decades of the nineteenth century, the bulk of the book is about the twentieth century, in fact it goes up to summer 1999 when I handed in the manuscript. The chapter headings are as follows: Introduction; Chapter 1: The Victorian Background; Chapter 2: Social purity and evolving sex in the 1880s; Chapter 3: Scientific sex, unspeakable Oscar, and insurgent women in the 'naughty nineties'; Chapter 4: Degenerating nation? Anxieties and protests in a new century; Chapter 5: Divorce, disease, and war; Chapter 6: Roars of rebellion, roars of reaction: the ambivalences of the twenties; Chapter 7: Population fears and progressive agendas during the thirties; Chapter 8: War and the Welfare State; Chapter 9: Domest
Lesley Hall examines a range of specific areas in the context of the Victorian era, which saw major developments in issues of sex and gender. Topics discussed include social, political, legal, medical, psychological, sociological and scientific discourses around questions of sexuality, eugenics, birth control and abortion, homosexuality and lesbianism, venereal disease, prostitution, social purity, sex education, ideals of marriage and sexual relationship, censorship, the role of women and changing masculinities. A major focus is the ambiguous and syncopated relationship between "progressive" and "reactionary" tendencies. Secondary literature is synthesised and new archival research incorporated.
From the Author
This book covers the entire twentieth century
Sex, Gender and Social Change does not only deal with the Victorian era: while it includes a substantial introductory chapter on the Victorian background, and two chapters on the final decades of the nineteenth century, the bulk of the book is about the twentieth century, in fact it goes up to summer 1999 when I handed in the manuscript. The chapter headings are as follows: Introduction; Chapter 1: The Victorian Background; Chapter 2: Social purity and evolving sex in the 1880s; Chapter 3: Scientific sex, unspeakable Oscar, and insurgent women in the 'naughty nineties'; Chapter 4: Degenerating nation? Anxieties and protests in a new century; Chapter 5: Divorce, disease, and war; Chapter 6: Roars of rebellion, roars of reaction: the ambivalences of the twenties; Chapter 7: Population fears and progressive agendas during the thirties; Chapter 8: War and the Welfare State; Chapter 9: Domest