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Sexual Politics - Sexuality, Family Planning, and the British Left from the 1880s to the Present Day (Hardcover, New)
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Sexual Politics - Sexuality, Family Planning, and the British Left from the 1880s to the Present Day (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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