Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.
Preface.
1. Sexuality and the historian.
2. `That damned morality': sex in Victorian idealogy.
3. The sacramental family: middle-class men, women and children.
4. Sexuality and the labouring classes.
5. The public and the private: moral regulation in the Victorian period.
6. The consturction of homosexuality.
7. The population question in the early 20th century.
8. The theorisation of sex.
9. Feminism and socialism.
10. Sex psychology and birth control.
11. Beliefs and behaviour 1914-39.
12. The state and sexuality.
13. The permissive moment.
14. Currents and counter-currents.
15. Postcript: the 1980s.
Suggestions for further reading.
Index.

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'This is 'a history of the present' worthy of the name, and as such cannot fail to raise difficult questions' Michael Ignatieff