Sexual progressives : reimagining intimacy in Scotland, 1880-1914 / Tanya Cheadle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheadle, Tanya, author.

Series:

Gender in history.

Gender in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex customs--Scotland--History--19th century.

Sex customs.

Sex customs--Scotland--History--20th century.

Sexual ethics--Scotland--History--19th century.

Sexual ethics.

Sexual ethics--Scotland--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 233 pages) : illustrations (black and white); digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2020.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Sexual Progressives is a major new study of the feminists and socialists who campaigned against the moral conservatism of the Victorian period. Drawing on a range of sources, from letters and diaries to radical newspapers and utopian novels, it provides the first group portrait of Scotland's hitherto neglected sexual rebels. They include Bella and Charles Pearce, prominent Glasgow socialists and disciples of an American-based mystic who taught that religion needed 're-sexed'; Jane Hume Clapperton, a feminist freethinker with advanced views on birth-control and women's right to sexual pleasure; and Patrick Geddes, founder of an avant-garde Edinburgh subculture and co-author of an influential scientific book on sex. A consideration of their lives and work forces a reappraisal of our understanding of British sexual progressivism during this period and will therefore be of interest to all historians of modern gender and sexuality.

Contents:

The reach of the 'unco guid'

Matrons, maidens and new men

Re-sexing religion in suburban Glasgow

Realising a more than earthly paradise of love

Deeds of daring rectitude.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526125279

1526125277

9781526152060

1526152061

9781526125262

1526125269

OCLC:

1145278730