Abstract

INTRODUCTION: 'YOUR SEX LIFE IS POLITICAL' 1. Beginnings: Socialism and Sexual Reform, 1880s to 1920s 2. Clash: The Labour Party and Birth Control in the 1920s 3. Writing and Living New Worlds: Socialism, Sex and Emotions 4. Abortion and Working-Class Politics in the 1930s SECTION II: ROADS TO 1967 5. A 'Silent', 'Modern' Revolution'? The Family, Femininity and Reproductive Politics in the 1940s and 1950s 6. Labour and the 'Liberal Hour', 1956-67: Abortion, Family Planning and Homosexual Law Reform SECTION III: ROADS FROM 1967 7. Second Wave Feminism, Labour and the Defence of the Abortion Act, 1967-90 8. A Thirty Years War? Gay Rights and the Labour Party, 1967-97 Conclusion: Endings or Beginnings: New Labour, Sexuality and Reproductive Politics, 1997 to 2010 Archival Sources and Select Bibliography Index

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