The Politics of Expertise offers a challenging new interpretation of politics in contemporary
Britain, through an examination of non-governmental organisations. Using specific case …

Sexual Politics explores the complex relationship between sexuality and socialist politics in
Britain between the 1880s and the present day. Looking at birth control, abortion law reform …

This article reviews literature from a number of disciplines in order to provide an explanation
of the political controversy attached to the provision of abortion counselling. It will show how …

This paper examines the ways in which young women articulated strategies of resistance to
internalised abortion stigma. It does so through secondary analysis of young women's …

How can we explain rising levels of pre-marital sex in post-war Britain? Focusing on the
experiences of young women growing up in Britain between 1950 and 1980, this article …

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This article restores pregnancy testing to its significant position in the history of the women's
liberation movement in 1970s Britain. It shows how feminists appropriated the pregnancy …

Comparative-historical research on medicalization is rare and, perhaps for that reason,
largely ignores political institutions, which tend to vary more across countries than within …

Walters developed the concept of domopolitics to refer to the ways in which the
securitisation of migration contributes to the construction of the UK as a 'national home' …

This volume offers an overview of what it was like to be female and to live and die in
Victorian England (c. 1837-1901), by situating this experience within the scientific and social …