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Shortlisted for the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize
Sexual Politics
Sexuality, Family Planning, and the British Left from the 1880s to the Present Day
Stephen Brooke
298 pages
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12 black and white images
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234x156mm
978-0-19-956254-1
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Hardback
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24 November 2011
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- A broad-ranging history of socialist thought in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- Stresses the continuing importance of class to 20th century British history
- Integrates gender with the history of politics
- Links the history of politics with sexuality
Sexual Politics explores the complex relationship between sexuality and socialist politics in Britain between the 1880s and the present day. Looking at birth control, abortion law reform, and gay rights, this is a timely examination of the relationship between the personal and the political over the last century and a half. Stephen Brooke tells the stories of individuals such as Edward Carpenter, Dora Russell, Sheila Rowbotham, Ken Livingstone, Peter Tatchell, and Tony Blair, and organizations like the Workers' Birth Control Group, the Abortion Law Reform Association, the National Abortion Campaign, and the Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights. Sexual radicalism,
first and second wave feminism, and gay liberation all feature in the book's portrait of the progress of sexual politics from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century.
Sexual Politics also offers an analysis of the Labour Party's long and sometimes ambiguous link to issues of sexuality, ending with the considerable contribution made to sex reform by the New Labour governments of 1997 to 2010. Sexual issues were always under the surface of Labour politics in the twentieth century, emerging forcefully in the 1970s and 1980s in a way that brought both division and unity to the party. Brooke stresses the importance of class and gender identity to the fate of sexual issues in British politics, the dynamic nature of British socialism, and the impact
of sexual radicalism, feminism, and gay liberation upon socialist and working-class politics. Sexual Politics argues that the shifting relationship between the personal and the political is a central element of twentieth-century British history, a relationship that helped define the character of political modernity.Readership: Academics and students with an interest in the history of Labour Party and the history of sexuality.
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Stephen Brooke, Professor, Department of History, York University, Toronto 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.
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"this book covers new ground and is full of important insights and ideas...it is sure to become an essential work in British political history and Brookes lucid and lively style will ensure that it is widely read." - Kate Fisher, Twentieth Century British History "Stephen Brooke's work is a fascinating and important contribution...Full of colourful nuggets of history, Brooke pieces together a detailed account of how British leftists made their peace with sexual politics, and found their own ways to be equality pioneers." - Olivia Bailey, Renewal "Highly recommended." - H. L. Smith, CHOICE "[Brooke] convincingly argues that bringing sexuality into politics might not just
result in accommodation from the centre, but a gradual, powerful transformation of that centre." - Times Literary Supplement "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." - Charles Smith, Reviews in History
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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
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