by Cate Haste (Author)
The Free Love Debate; the sex psychologists; the Bright Young Things; homosexual life in the Thirties; secret sex and World War II; the Sixties and the pill; gay rights; rape laws; the impact of AIDS; the declining ideal of marriage; the new emphasis on relationships and 'whole body sensuality'...beginning with the Edwardian theorists, like Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis, Cate Haste tells the history of changing sexual attitudes in twentieth- century Britain. Intimate private experience is set against well-known cases - from Lady Chatterley to Profumo, Thorpe and Archer - and against the dictates of the churches, courts and media.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07 Nov 2002
ISBN 10: 0099437953
ISBN 13: 9780099437956
Book Overview: As diverting and as suggestive as a very good novel ... temperate, balanced, subtle and humane' Maureen Freely, Independent on Sunday