Sex, gender and social change in Britain since 1880
- Creator
- Hall, Lesley A.
Sex, gender and social change in Britain since 1880
Drawing on a vast range of recent scholarship, as well as hitherto unpublished archival research, this book analyses the variety of messages about sexuality interacting at specific historical moments. Hall discusses a range of cases, for example, the 'massage parlours' furore of the 1890s, and lesser-known sex reformers such as Stella Browne and George Ives. However, notorious scandals, such as the trial of Oscar Wilde and the prosecution of Radclyffe Hall's lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness, famous figures such as Havelock Ellis and Marie Stopes, and the well-known liberalizing Acts of Parliament of the late 1960s are not neglected.
- Creator
- Hall, Lesley A.