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Article: The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975.(Book review)
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- December 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. Pp. xiv, 412. $55.00.)
According to the first, Whiggish generation of writers who chronicled the history of birth control, the popularization of contraceptives represented the simple triumph of rationality over ignorance. Scholars who broached the subject from the 1970s onward tended to be less sanguine. As even the advent of the oral contraceptive did little to free women from male sexual demands, feminist historians wondered what exactly one meant by the term "sexual revolution." Hera Cook intends to silence such wet blankets, ...
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