Full Description
Originally published in 1984. The history of sex in the last 100 years has usually been written as a story of progress from repression to sexual liberation. This book argues that the reverse is true, demonstrating that the 'sexual revolution' came as a backlash to a women's movement which challenged men's sexual abuse and tried to reconstruct male sexuality in women's interest. At first it looks at those groups at the turn of the twentieth century who campaigned to challenge prevailing ideas about sexual behaviour. It moves on to review the work of the most influential sexologists Ellis, Kinsey, Masters and Johnson, and then presents a critical analysis of the sex magazine Forum.
Contents
Biographical notes, Introduction, 1. 'Free from all uninvited touch of man': women's campaigns around sexuality, 1880-1914, 2. Sexology and the social construction of male sexuality (Havelock Ellis), 3. Sexology and the universalization of male sexuality (from Ellis to Kinsey, and Masters and Johnson), 4. Theory into practice: sexual liberation or social control?(Forum magazine 1968-81), Bibliography
