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Zusatztext a much needed intervention in the history of politics and sexuality in the 20th century - a book which students and researchers of the subject will find essential and also, due to the clarity of the argument and lucidity of tone, enjoyable ... a book which should provoke debate and focus minds for years to come. Informationen zum Autor Stephen Brooke has been a co-editor of the journal Twentieth-Century British History since 2004 and managing editor since 2010. He has also served on the editorial boards of Contemporary British History and the Journal of British Studies. Klappentext Explores the complex relationship between sexuality and socialist politics in Britain, arguing that sexuality has been a key, though often neglected aspect of party politics in the last century and a half. It also explores the relationship between the personal and the political in a wide-ranging study of British society. Zusammenfassung Explores the complex relationship between sexuality and socialist politics in Britain, arguing that sexuality has been a key, though often neglected aspect of party politics in the last century and a half. It also explores the relationship between the personal and the political in a wide-ranging study of British society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 'Your Sex Life is Political' 1: Beginnings: Socialism and Sexual Reform, 1880s to 1920s 2: Clash: The Labour Party and Birth Control in the 1920s 3: Writing and Living New Worlds: Socialism, Sex and Emotions 4: Abortion and Working-Class Politics in the 1930s Section II: Roads to 1967 5: A 'Silent', 'Modern' Revolution'? The Family, Femininity and Reproductive Politics in the 1940s and 1950s 6: Labour and the 'Liberal Hour', 1956-67: Abortion, Family Planning and Homosexual Law Reform Section III: Roads from 1967 7: Second Wave Feminism, Labour and the Defence of the Abortion Act, 1967-90 8: A Thirty Years War? Gay Rights and the Labour Party, 1967-97 Conclusion: Endings or Beginnings: New Labour, Sexuality and Reproductive Politics, 1997 to 2010 Archival Sources and Select Bibliography Index ...
