Sex, Politics and Society : The Regulation of Sexuality Since 1800 (Paperback, 4 ed)

1. Sexuality and the historian

Introduction

Histories of sexuality

Sexuality and power

Sexuality and the politics of history

The making of ‘modern’ sexuality

2. ‘That damned morality’: sex in Victorian ideology

Victorian sexuality: myths and meanings

Emergent patterns

The domestic ideology

Sex and class

3. The sacramental family: middle-class men, women and children

Masculinity and femininity

Birth control

Childhood

4. Sexuality and the labouring classes

Middle-class myths, working-class realities

Traditions, illegitimacy and proletarianisation

The patterns of family life

Respectability and its discontents

5. The public and the private: moral regulation in the Victorian period

Forms of moral regulation

Private morality, public vice

Reform or control?

6. The construction of homosexuality

Homosexuality: concepts and consequences

The sins of sodom

Moral, legal and medical regulation

Identities and ways of life

Intimate lives

7. The population question in the early twentieth century

Population politics

Maternalism

Eugenics

The influence of eugenics

8. The theorisation of sex

A new continent of knowledge

Sex, science and society

Havelock Ellis and sex research

The impact of Freud

9. Feminism and socialism

Sexual radicalism and its limits

Feminism and sexuality

The morals of socialism

10. Sex psychology and birth control

Sex psychology

International movements

Parenthood and birth control

11. Towards a conservative modernity

A ‘glorious unfolding’?

Domesticity and family life

Protecting purity

Psychology and sex delinquency

12. The state and sexuality

Welfare and citizenship

Reproducing the population

Towards the complementary marriage

‘Wolfenden’ and sexual liberalism

13. The permissive moment

The transition

‘Permissiveness’

Youth

Women

Ideologies

The political moment

The limits of permissiveness

14. Personal politics and moral conservatism

The ebbing tide

Second-wave feminism

The challenge of gay liberation

The new moralism

The Thatcherite experiment

The AIDS crisis

15. The changing landscape of sexuality and gender

Intimate pleasures

Doing families

A gender revolution?

16. Diversity, agency and citizenship

The changing world of LGBT people

Becoming ordinary

Multicultural Britain?

Live and let love