Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality Since 1800

Author: 
Jeffrey Weeks
Publishing Year: 
1989
Publishing House: 
Person Education Limited
Number of pages: 
326
Language: 
English
Volumes: 
1
ISBN: 
9780582023833

A study of the regulation of sexuality in Britain since 1800. It examines changes in ideas, the law, sexual morality, the family, birth control and sexual practice. It also includes discussion of feminism, socialism, Freud, eugenics, the permissive movement and reactions to it.