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Author Weeks, Jeffrey, 1945-

Title Sex, politics, and society : the regulation of sexuality since 1800 / Jeffrey Weeks.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Longman, 1981.

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  392.6 W395S    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 306 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Themes in British social history
Themes in British social history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Sexuality and the historian -- 'That damned morality': Sex 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 theorization of sex -- Feminism and Socialism -- Sex psychology and birth control -- Beliefs and behavior 1914-39 -- The state of sexuality -- The permissive moment -- Currents and counter-currents
Subject Sex customs -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Sex customs -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Great Britain -- Moral conditions.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1800-1980
ISBN 0582483336
9780582483330
0582483344 (paperback)
9780582483347 (paperback)
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