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Article: The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- June 22, 2005
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The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975. By Hera Cook (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii plus 412pp.).
This is an admirable book, and at times, a gutsy one as well. It is refreshing to find a monograph that is soundly researched, logically argued, and women-centered, on, of all subjects, women and sex. Cook manages to do something that more senior scholars often find difficult: to weave a story that is necessarily interdisciplinary, and to do so gracefully, using material and concepts developed by sociologists, economists, and psychologists, as well as those of historians. The Long Sexual Revolution is also replete ...
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