Birth Control, Sex, and Marriage in Britain 1918-1960

"The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a revolution in contraceptive behaviour as the large Victorian family disappeared. This book offers a new perspective on the gender relations, sexual attitudes, and contraceptive practices that accompanied the emergence of the smaller family in modern Britain. Kate Fisher draws on a range of first-hand evidence, including over 190 oral history interviews, in which individuals born between 1900 and 1930 described their marriages and sexual relationships. By using individual testimony she challenges many of the key conditions that have long been envisaged by demographic and historical scholars as necessary for any significant reduction in average family size to take place."--Jacket.

Abortion · Abstinence · Birth control · Family planning · Fertility · Ignorance · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · Research methodology · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Medicine · 20th century · Contraception · Contraception Behavior · Family size · Great britain · Marriage · Sex customs · Sex role · Sexual behavior · Social conditions

• Fertility Transition

  Open Access•Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Jennifer Johnson‐Hanks•International Encyclopedia of the…•2015

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• A Woman's Right to Know

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• Understanding Family Change and Variation

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• The Duogynon controversy and ignorance production in post-thalidomide West Germany

  Open Access•Birgit Nemec, Jesse Olszynko-Gryn•Reproductive Biomedicine &…•2021

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• Miscarriage, abortion or criminal feticide

  Open Access•Rosemary Elliot•Studies in History and Philosophy…•2014

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• Love, Sex, and Happiness in Education

  Carla Hustak, Carla Christina Hustak•Journal of the History of Sexuality•2013

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• Tampon Technology in Britain

  Camilla Mørk Røstvik•Technology and Culture•2022

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• Why “Race Suicide”? Cultural Factors in U.S. Fertility Decline, 1903–1908

  Trent Macnamara•The Journal of Interdisciplinary…•2014

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• Reproduction

  Nick Hopwood, Rebecca Flemming et al.•Reproduction•2018

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• Investigar y comunicar la historia de la anticoncepción

  Open Access•Teresa Ortiz Gómez, Agata Ignaciuk•Atlánticas Revista Internacional…•2020

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• Membership in and Presence of Voluntary Organisations during the Swedish Fertility Transition, 1880-1949

  Open Access•Johan Junkka•Historical Life Course Studies•2018

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• Living in ‘New Times’

  Open Access•Stephen Brooke•History Compass•2014

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• Love, Selfhood and Authenticity in Post-War Britain

  Claire Langhamer•Cultural and Social History•2012

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• Peer-to-peer counselling and emotional guidance on infertility in Britain and Belgium (1970s–1980s)

  Open Access•Yuliya Hilevych, Tinne Claes•Medical Humanities•2023

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• From Beveridge Britain to Birds Eye Britain

  Open Access•Katrina-Louise Moseley•Contemporary British History•2021

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• Men Too

  Katherine Jones•Contemporary British History•2019

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• Les « méthodes naturelles » de contraception

  Cécile Thomé•Cahiers du Genre•2022

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• Priest, parishioner and posterity

  Angelo Somers, F W A Van Poppel•The History of the Family•2010

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• Reproductive behavior and contraceptive practices in comparative perspective, Switzerland (1955–1970)

  Caroline Rusterholz•The History of the Family•2014

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• Two children to make ends meet’

  Open Access•Yuliya Hilevych, Caroline Rusterholz•The History of the Family•2018

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• Living in the demos

  Trent Macnamara, Yuliya Hilevych•The History of the Family•2015

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• The family planning service and the pill in Geneva (1965–1980)

  Sylvie Burgnard•The History of the Family•2015

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• Reproductive health, birth control, and fertility change in Sweden, circa 1900–1940

  Sofia Kling•The History of the Family•2010

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• We weren't the sort that wanted intimacy every night”

  Simon Szreter, Kate Fisher•The History of the Family•2009

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• Religion, masculinity and fertility decline

  Anne‐Françoise Praz, Anne-Françoise Praz•The History of the Family•2009

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• Women's agency in Australia's first fertility transition

  Margaret Anderson, Margaret Lavinia Anderson et al.•The History of the Family•2015

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• Parenthood, child-rearing and fertility in England, 1850–1914

  Siân Pooley•The History of the Family•2013

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• Abortion and gender relationships in Ukraine, 1955–1970

  Yuliya Hilevych•The History of the Family•2015

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• Demographic socialization and reproductive behavior in a transitional context

  Reto Schumacher•The History of the Family•2012

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• Repression and incitement

  Peeter Tammeveski•The History of the Family•2011

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• The stories rocks can tell

  Carla Hustak, Carla Christina Hustak•Gender Place & Culture•2013

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• An Irish Solution to an Irish Problem

  Open Access•Brian Girvin•Contemporary European History•2017

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• Indirect audiences and conflicting narratives about oral contraception

  Open Access•Robin E Jensen, Madison A Krall et al.•Public Understanding of Science•2025

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• Inventing the female self in Greenwich Village, 1900–1930

  Open Access•Carla Christina Hustak•Subjectivity•2013

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• From Interdependence to 'Modern' Individualism

  Open Access•Nancy Christie•History Compass•2012

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• Transition to consistent contraceptive practices in Finland

  Open Access•Miina Keski-Petäjä, Matleena Frisk•The History of the Family•2025

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• Was Thomas McKeown right for the wrong reasons

  Open Access•Aleck Ostry, Aleck S Ostry et al.•Critical Public Health•2010

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• Introduction

  Fabrice Cahen, Lionel Kesztenbaum•Annales de Démographie Historique•2020

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• The “K-Bomb”

  Open Access•Amie Bingham, Adrian Bingham•Journal of British Studies•2011

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• The People Who Write to Us Are the People Who Don't Like Us”

  Open Access•Daisy Payling•Journal of British Studies•2020

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• Irishwomen United, the Contraception Action Programme and the feminist campaign for free, safe and legal contraception in Ireland, c. 1975–81

  Open Access•Laura Kelly•Irish Historical Studies•2019

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• Talking about sexual and reproductive health

  Jenny Bangham, Yuliya Hilevych et al.•Medical Humanities•2023

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• Childless People during the Baby Boom in Switzerland

  Aline Duvoisin, Sylvie Burgnard et al.•Annales de Démographie Historique•2017

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• Childless People during the Baby Boom in Switzerland

  Aline Duvoisin, Sylvie Burgnard et al.•Annales de Démographie Historique•2017

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• Les apports et les promesses de l’économie politique de la fécondité pour l’étude de ses transitions

  Virginie De Luca Barrusse, Caroline Rusterholz•Annales de Démographie Historique•2017

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• Contraception and the Demographic Transition

  Open Access•Joydeep Bhattacharya, Shankha Chakraborty•The Economic Journal•2017

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• Sex, Gender, and Romantic Intimacy in Servicemen's Letters During the Second World War

  Open Access•Alison Twells•The Historical Journal•2019

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• Intimacy in Modern British History

  Open Access•George Morris•The Historical Journal•2020

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• Emotion, Bodies, Sexuality, and Sex Education in Edwardian England

  Open Access•Hera Cook•The Historical Journal•2012

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• Ten Rillington Place and the Changing Politics of Abortion in Modern Britain

  Open Access•Emma Jones, Emma L Jones et al.•The Historical Journal•2014

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• Depo-Provera, Class, Race, and the Domiciliary Family Planning Services in Glasgow and Haringey, 1970–1983

  Open Access•Caroline Rusterholz, Laura Kelly•The Historical Journal•2024

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• Drawing aside the curtain’

  Open Access•Salim Al-Gailani•The British Journal for the…•2017

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• Changing gender relations, declining fertility? An analysis of childbearing trajectories in 19th-century Netherlands

  Open Access•H Bras, Reto Schumacher•Demographic Research•2019

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• Entrance into parenthood at the onset of low fertility in Ukraine

  Open Access•Yuliya Hilevych•Demographic Research•2020

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• "How Little Progress"? A Political Economy of Postcolonial Nutrition

  Open Access•Josiah Nott, John Nott•Population and Development Review•2018

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• I am determined to bring no more children to the world

  Lison Huet-Larrieu•Revue française des affaires…•2023

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• Fertility and contraception

  Miguel Requena Y Díez De Revenga, David Reher et al.•Population Studies•2023

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• An Imperfect Contraceptive Society

  Open Access•A Gribaldo, Maya D Judd et al.•Population and Development Review•2009

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• Demographic Transitions and Modernity

  Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Jennifer Johnson‐hank et al.•Annual Review of Anthropology•2008

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