Family Newspapers?

• First detailed history of sex and private lives in the modern popular press
• Highlights changing ideas of what sexual content was considered acceptable for a 'family newspaper'
• Challenges established interpretations - argues the press opened up the public discussion of sexuality before the 'permissive' 1960s
• Explores the wide diversity of coverage of sexual matters, from advice columns to celebrity revelations

Readership: Students and scholars of modern British history, social history, and the media; those interested in the development of cultural attitudes towards sex and the history of sexual behaviour

Adrian Bingham, Lecturer in History, Sheffield University

"Engrossing...[an] important book." - Helen McCarthy, 20th Century British History

"Adrian Binghams fascinating, scholarly and in places droll account of the British popular press in the short twentieth-century offers a much needed overview of the daily and Sunday papers in British popular culture... a coherent and succinct introduction to the field of twentieth-century media history... The substance of Family Newspapers has deep potential implications for the master frames used to understand twentieth-century Britain" - Lucy Delap, Journal of British Studies

"Superb analytical history over a 60-year period eye-popping revelatory nuggets it does give credence to the widely-held view, which has never previously been proved as well as in this book, that sex sells." - Roy Greenslade, Journalism Studies

"Absorbing new study... Each chapter is packed with fascinating material and perceptive insights important book." - Helen McCarthy, Twentieth Century British History

"My own experience writing press history further heightened my appreciation of this impressive book. Family Newspapers demonstrates Adrian Binghams wide mastery of sixty years of sex and celebrity reporting in a series of popular newspapers... a labor of love on the part of the author... well written and engaging book." - Laura Beers, H-Albion

"Very useful book" - H. G. Cocks, Media History

"Adrian Binghams Family Newspapers? shows clearly that the popular press has always tried to suck readers in with banner headline titillation, inside-page innuendo, and pictures of women as déshabillée as the times would allow." - Jenny Diski, London Review of Books

Introduction
1: Contexts: The Media and British Sexual Culture
2: Informing and Advising: Sexual Welfare
3: Surveying Sexual Attitudes and Behaviour
4: Court Reporting
5: Moral Crusades: Prostitution and Homosexuality
6: Titillation: The Evolution of the Newspaper Pin-Up
7: Gossip and Scandal: Scrutinising Public Figures
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index