Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940
Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940

Author: Simon Szreter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-07-25

Total Pages: 734

ISBN-13: 9780521528689

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This book offers an original interpretation of the history of falling fertilities in Britain between 1860 and 1940. It integrates the approaches of the social sciences and of demographic, feminist, and labour history with intellectual, social, and political history. It exposes the conceptual and statistical inadequacies of the orthodox picture of a national, unitary class-differential fertility decline, and presents an entirely new analysis of the famous 1911 fertility census of England and Wales. Surprising and important findings emerge concerning the principal methods of birth control: births were spaced from early on in marriage; and sexual abstinence by married couples was a far more significant practice than previously imagined. The author presents a new general approach to the study of fertility change, raising central issues concerning the relationship between history and social science.

Sex Before the Sexual Revolution
Sex Before the Sexual Revolution

Author: Simon Szreter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-10-14

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139492896

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What did sex mean for ordinary people before the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, who were often pitied by later generations as repressed, unfulfilled and full of moral anxiety? This book provides the first rounded, first-hand account of sexuality in marriage in the early and mid-twentieth century. These award-winning authors look beyond conventions of silence among the respectable majority to challenge stereotypes of ignorance and inhibition. Based on vivid, compelling and frank testimonies from a socially and geographically diverse range of individuals, the book explores a spectrum of sexual experiences, from learning about sex and sexual practices in courtship, to attitudes to the body, marital ideals and birth control. It demonstrates that while the era's emphasis on silence and strict moral codes could for some be a source of inhibition and dissatisfaction, for many the culture of privacy and innocence was central to fulfilling and pleasurable intimate lives.

Changing Family Size in England and Wales
Changing Family Size in England and Wales

Author: Eilidh Garrett

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-07-05

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 1139428810

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This volume is an important study in demographic history. It draws on the individual returns from the 1891, 1901 and 1911 censuses of England and Wales, to which Garrett, Reid, Schürer and Szreter were permitted access ahead of scheduled release dates. Using the responses of the inhabitants of thirteen communities to the special questions included in the 1911 'fertility' census, they consider the interactions between the social, economic and physical environments in which people lived and their family-building experience and behaviour. Techniques and approaches based in demography, history and geography enable the authors to re-examine the declines in infant mortality and marital fertility which occurred at the turn of the twentieth century. Comparisons are drawn within and between white-collar, agricultural and industrial communities, and the analyses, conducted at both local and national level, lead to conclusions which challenge both contemporary and current orthodoxies.

Reshaping Social Life
Reshaping Social Life

Author: Sarah Irwin

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9780415339377

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Through analysis of key areas of social life, Irwin breaks with convention and develops a conceptual and analytical perspective of social change, focusing on relationality, context and interdependence.

A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939 - 2000
A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939 - 2000

Author: Paul Addison

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 1405141409

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A Companion to Contemporary Britain covers the key themesand debates of 20th-century history from the outbreak of the SecondWorld War to the end of the century. Assesses the impact of the Second World War Looks at Britain’s role in the wider world, including thelegacy of Empire, Britain’s ‘specialrelationship’ with the United States, and integration withcontinental Europe Explores cultural issues, such as class consciousness,immigration and race relations, changing gender roles, and theimpact of the mass media Covers domestic politics and the economy Introduces the varied perspectives dominating historicalwriting on this period Identifies the key issues which are likely to fuel futuredebate

After the Virus
After the Virus

Author: Hilary Cooper

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-09-23

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1009005200

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Reveals the deep roots of the UK's lack of resilience when COVID-19 hit and sets out an ambitious manifesto for change.

Patient voices in Britain, 1840–1948
Patient voices in Britain, 1840–1948

Author: Anne Hanley

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2021-09-07

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1526154870

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Historians have long engaged with Roy Porter’s call for histories that incorporate patients’ voices and experiences. But despite concerted methodological efforts, there has simply not been the degree and breadth of innovation that Porter envisaged. Patients’ voices still often remain obscured. This has resulted in part from assumptions about the limitations of archives, many of which are formed of institutional records written from the perspective of health professionals. Patient voices in Britain repositions patient experiences at the centre of healthcare history, using new types of sources and reading familiar sources in new ways. Focusing on military medicine, Poor Law medicine, disability, psychiatry and sexual health, this collection encourages historians to tackle the ethical challenges of using archival material and to think more carefully about how their work might speak to persistent health inequalities and challenges in health-service delivery.

Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960
Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960

Author: Prof Joanna Bourke

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-01-28

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1134858582

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Integrating a variety of historical approaches and methods, Joanna Bourke looks at the construction of class within the intimate contexts of the body, the home, the marketplace, the locality and the nation to assess how the subjective identity of the 'working class' in Britain has been maintained through seventy years of radical social, cultural and economic change. She argues that class identity is essentially a social and cultural rather than an institutional or political phenomenon and therefore cannot be understood without constant reference to gender and ethnicity. Each self contained chapter consists of an essay of historical analysis, introducing students to the ways historians use evidence to understand change, as well as useful chronologies, statistics and tables, suggested topics for discussion, and selective further reading.

Biometric State
Biometric State

Author: Keith Breckenridge

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-10-02

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1107077842

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A groundbreaking study of South Africa's role as a site for global experiments in biometric identification throughout the twentieth century.