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Sex, politics and society : the regulation of sexuality since 1800 / Jeffrey Weeks.
LIBRA HQ18.G7 W43 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weeks, Jeffrey, 1945-
- Series:
- Themes in British social history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex customs--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Sex customs.
- Sex customs--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- History.
- Great Britain--Moral conditions.
- Great Britain.
- Moral conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 445 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Harlow, UK ; New York : Pearson Education, 2012.
- Contents:
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the third edition
- Acknowledgements to the first edition
- Acknowledgements to the third edition
- Publisher's acknowledgements
- Sexuality and the historian
- 'That damned morality' : sexuality in victorian ideology
- The sacramental family : middle-class men, women, and children
- Sexuality and the labouring classes
- The public and the private : moral regulation in the victorian period
- The construction of homosexuality
- The population question in the early twentieth century
- The theorisation of sex
- Feminism and socialism
- Sex psychology and birth control
- Towards a conservative modernity
- The state and sexuality
- The permissive moment
- Personal politics and moral conservatism
- A new world?
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Tom Farinholt and Blair Edlow Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1408248301
- 9781408248300
- OCLC:
- 778314731
- Publisher Number:
- 99952207063
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