Buch, Englisch, 426 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 804 g
English Women, Sex, and Contraception 1800-1975
Buch, Englisch, 426 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 804 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-925239-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford
In 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.
Zielgruppe
Readers interested in current and historical attitudes towards sex and contraception, gender studies, and in psychohistory, scholars and students of modern British history, especially social and cultural historians, demographers, sociologists.
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Fachgebiete
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
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