Brooke, Stephen, author.
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Notes:

• Originally published in hardcover 2011.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-276) and index.
• Introduction : ‘Your sex life is political’ — 1. Beginnings : socialism and sexual reform, 1880s to 1920s — Part 1. Back streets and utopias between the wars : 2. Clash : the Labour Party and birth control, 1923 to 1930 — 3. Writing and living new worlds : socialism, sex, and emotions — 4. Abortion and working-class politics in the 1930s — Part 2. 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 — Part 3. 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.
• This title explores the complex relationship between sexuality and socialist politics in Britain, arguing that sexuality has been a key, though often neglected aspect of party politics in the 150 years. It also explores the relationship between the personal and the political in a wide-ranging study of British society.

Subjects:

• Labour Party (Great Britain) — History.
• Sex — Political aspects — Great Britain — History — 20th century.
• Socialist ethics — Great Britain — History.
• Great Britain — Social policy — History.
• Great Britain — Politics and government.

Requested by deVries, J.