Sexual Progressives: Reimagining Intimacy in Scotland, 1880-1914

Sexual Progressives is a new study that explores the lives and work of feminists and socialists who campaigned against the moral conservatism of the Victorian period in Scotland. It provides a group portrait of Scotlands neglected sexual rebels, including Bella and Charles Pearce, Jane Hume Clapperton, and Patrick Geddes, and challenges our understanding of British sexual progressivism during this period.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 248 pages
\n Publication date: 02 November 2021
\n Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Sexual Progressives is a groundbreaking new study that delves into the lives and works of the feminists and socialists who fought against the moral conservatism of the Victorian era. By drawing on a diverse array of sources, including letters, diaries, radical newspapers, and utopian novels, the book offers the first comprehensive portrait of Scotland's hitherto overlooked sexual rebels. These individuals include prominent Glasgow socialists Bella and Charles Pearce, who were followers of an American mystic who believed that religion needed to be "re-sexed"; Jane Hume Clapperton, a feminist freethinker with advanced views on birth control and women's right to sexual pleasure; and Patrick Geddes, the founder of an avant-garde Edinburgh subculture and co-author of an influential scientific book on sex. By examining their lives and contributions, Sexual Progressives challenges our understanding of British sexual progressivism during this period and holds significance for all historians interested in modern gender and sexuality.

\n Weight: 330g\n
Dimension: 140 x 217 x 17 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781526160461\n \n