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Birth Control, Sex, and Marriage in Britain 1918-1960 (Paperback)
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Birth Control, Sex, and Marriage in Britain 1918-1960 (Paperback)
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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 relations, sexual
attitudes, and contraceptive practices that accompanied the
emergence of the smaller family in modern Britain. Kate Fisher
draws on a range of first-hand evidence, including over 190 oral
history interviews, in which individuals born between 1900 and 1930
described their marriages and sexual relationships. By using
individual testimony she challenges many of the key conditions that
have long been envisaged by demographic and historical scholars as
necessary for any significant reduction in average family size to
take place.
Dr Fisher demonstrates that a massive expansion in birth control
took place in a society in which sexual ignorance was widespread;
that effective family limitation was achieved without the mass
adoption of new contraceptive technologies; that traditional
methods, such as withdrawal, absitinence, and abortion were often
seen as preferable to modern appliances, such as condoms and caps;
that communication between spouses was not key to the systematic
adoption of contraception; and, above all, that women were not
necessarily the driving force behind the attempt to avoid
pregnancy. Women frequently avoided involvement in family planning
decisions and practices, whereas the vast majority of men in
Britain from the interwar period onward viewed the regular use of
birth control as a masculine duty and obligation. By allowing this
generation to speak for themselves, Kate Fisher produces a richer
understanding of the often startling social atttitudes and complex
conjugaldynamics that lay behind the vast changes in contraceptive
behavior and family size in the twentieth century.
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