Sexual attitudes and behaviour have changed radically in Britain between the Victorian era
and the twenty-first century. However, Lesley A. Hall reveals how slow and halting the …

In this book Hera Cook traces the path of sexuality in England, and shows how its route was
determined by the gradual exertion of control over fertility. Most sexual activity had major …

The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a revolution in contraceptive behaviour as
the large Victorian family disappeared. This book offers a new perspective on the gender …

This volume is an important study in demographic history. It draws on the individual returns
from the 1891, 1901 and 1911 censuses of England and Wales, to which Garrett, Reid …

Using original primary sources, this book uncovers and analyzes for the first time the politics
of fertility and the battle over birth control in South Africa from 1910 (the year the country was …

Women's medicine explores the key role played by British female doctors in the production
and circulation of contraceptive knowledge and the handling of sexual disorders between …

Recent decades have seen an important growth in research and publication concerning
women and sexuality in Irish history. 1 While many of these studies purport to be all-Ireland …

Against a background of press reports of declining literacy standards, there is a dominant
idea that both the responsibility for literacy learning and the key to literacy success lies as …

This paper contributes to debates on the intersections between organizations, the body, and
reproduction by exploring how the non‐reproductive female body is discursively (re) …

In recent years, the study of eugenics and birth control, particularly in Britain and America,
has become something of a scholarly industry. The former subject has tended to preoccupy …