Sexuality, Books On
19thC
Victoria C WOODHULL : Tried as by Fire or The True and the False Socially - An Oration
(1874 Woodhull & Claflin, NY)
Alice STOCKHAM : Karezza - Ethics of Marriage (1897 Alice B Stockham, Chicago)
1901-1930
Edvard WESTERMARCK : The History of Human Marriage (1901 Macmillan)
William THOMAS : The Unadjusted Girl (1923 Little Brown, Boston)
Rheta Childe DORR : A Woman of Fifty (1924 Funk & Wagnalls, NY)
Floyd DELL : Love in Greenwich Village (1926 Doran)
Dora RUSSELL : The Right to be Happy (1927 RKP)
Havelock ELLIS : Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1928 Davis & Co, Phila)
Ben LINDSEY : The Companionate Marriage (1928 Brentano's, London)
Thomas VAN DE VELDE : Ideal Marriage (1928 Heinemann)
1931-1950
Robert DICKINSON & Lura BEAM : A thousand Marriages (1932 Balliere, Tindall & Cox, London)
Mary R BEARD : America Through Women's Eyes (1933 Macmillan NY)
Eustace CHESSER : Marriage and Freedom (1946 Rich & Cowan)
Boris SOKOLOFF : Jealousy - A Psychological Study (1947 Caroll & Nicholson, London)
Helena WRIGHT : More Abou t the Sex Factor in Marriage (1947 Williams & Northgate, London)
Edmund ZIMAN : Jealousy in Children - A Guide for Parents (1949 NY)
1951-1960
Hannah & Abraham STONE : A Marriage Manual (1952 Gollancz)
Simone DE BEAUVOIR : The Second Sex (1953 Cape)
Magnus HIRSCHFIELD : Sex in Human Relations (1953 John Lane, London)
Alfred KINSEY : Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953 Saunders)
Edmund BERGLER & William KROGER : Kinsey's Myth of Female Sexuality
(1954 Grune & Stratton, NY)
Pauline RAGE : The Story of O (1954 Olympia Press, London)
Eustace CHESSER : The Sexual, Marital and Family Relationships of the English Woman
(1956 Hutchinson)
Kingsley DAVIS : Human Society (1959 Macmillan NY)
Virginia WIMPERIS : The Unmarried Mother and Her Child (1960 Allen)
1961-1970
Eustace CHESSER : Is Chastity Outmoded ? (1961 Heinemann)
Michael SCHOFIELD : The Sexual behaviour of Young People (1965 Longman)
Eustace CHESSER : Love Without Fear (1966 Arrow Press, London)
William MASTERS & Virginia JOHNSON : Human Sexual Response (1966 Churchill, London)
Shulamith FIRESTONE : The Dialectic of Sex (1970 Women's Press, London) (1979)
Herbert MARCUSE : Eros and Civilization (1970 Sphere, London)
1971-1975
Marguerite & Willard BEECHER : The Mark of Cain - An Anatomy of Jealousy (1971 NY)
William O'NEILL : Everyone was Brave - The Rise and Fall of Feminism in America
(1971 Quadrangle, Chicago)
(Ed) Gerda LERNER : Black Women in White America - A Documentary History
(1972 Pantheon NY)
De MARTIN & Phyllis LYON : Lesbian Women (1972 Batnam, NY)
Michael PEARSON : The Age of Consent - Victorian Prostitution and Its Enemies
(1972 David & Charles)
William O'NEILL : Divorce in the Progressive Era (1973 Franklin Watts, NY)
Michael SCHOFIELD : The Sexual Behaviour of Young Adults (1973 Allen Lane)
Lee COMER : Conditions of Illusion (1974 Feminist Books, Leeds)
Juliet MITCHELL : Psychoanalysis and Feminism (1974 Allen Lane)
Susan BROWNMILLER : Against Our Will - Men, Women and Rape (1975 Simon & Schuster NY)
Fay WELDON : Female Friends (1975 Heinemann)
1976-1978
Linda GORDON : Woman's Body, Woman's Right - A Social History of Birth Control in America
(1976 Penguin, NY)
Jonathan KATZ : Gay American History (1976 Crowell, NY)
R WILMOTT & M YOUNG : The Symmetrical Family (1976 Penguin)
Dorothy DINNERSTEIN : The Mermaid & the Minotaur - Sexual Arrangements and Human
Malaise (1977 Harper & Row)
Sigmund FREUD : On Sexuality (1977 Penguin)
Ruth ROSEN : The Maimie Papers (1977 Virago)
Hal D SEARS : The Sex Radicals - Free Love in High Victorian America
(1977 Regents Press of Kansas)
Barbara BERG : The Remembered Gate - Origins of American Feminism (1978 OUP, NY)
Nancy CHODOROW : The Reproduction of Mothering (1978 Univ of California Press, London)
Christine FARRELL : My Mother Said (1978 RKP)
(Ed) Ruth HALL : Dear Dr Stopes - Sex in the 1920's (1978 Penguin, NY)
Angus MacLAREN :Birth Control in the 19thC (1978 Croom Helm, London)
Barbara PONSE : Identities in the Lesbian World - The Social Construction of Self
(1978 Greenwood Press, Conn)
James REED : From Private Vice to Public Virtue (1978 Basic Books, NY)
(Eds) B SMART & C SMART : Women, Sexuality & Social Control (1978 RKP)
1979-1980
Sheila ROWBOTHAM, Lynne SEGAL & Hilary WAINWRIGHT : Beyond the Fragments
(1979 Merlin Press, London)
Taylor STOEHR : Free Love in America - A Documentary History (1979 AMS Press, NY)
Michele BARRETT : Women's Oppression Today - Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis
(1980 Verso & New Left Books)
Carl DEGLER : At Odds - Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present
(1980 OUP, NY)
Diana LEONARD : Sex and Generation (1980 Tavistock)
Judith R WALKOWITZ : Prostitution and Victorian Society - Women, Class and the State
(1980 CUP)
(Ed) Michelene WANDOR : Strike While the Iron is Hot (1980 Journeyman Press, London)
Elizabeth WILSON : Only Halfway to Paradise (1980 Tavistock)
1981-1982
Ruth BORDIN : Woman and Temperance - The Quest for Power & Liberty 1873-1900
(1981 Temple UP, Phila)
Andrea DWORKIN : Pornography - Men Possessing Women (1981 Women's Press, London)
Carol DYHOUSE : Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian & Edwardian England (1981 RKP)
Lillian S FADERMAN : Surpassing the Love of Men - Romantic Friendship & Love
Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present (1981 Morrow NY)
William LEACH : True Love and Perfect Union - Feminist Reform of Sex and Society
(1981 Basic Books, NY)
LEEDS REVOLUTIONARY FEMINIST GROUP : Love Your Enemy ? - The Debate between
Heterosexual Feminism and Political Lesbianism (1981 Onlywomen Press, London)
Mary MARSH : Anarchist Women 1870-1920 (1981 Temple UP)
Jeffrey WEEKS : Sex, Politics and Society - The Regulation of Sexuality Since 1808
(1981 Longmans)
Rosalind ROSENBERG : Beyond Separate Spheres - Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism
(1982 Yale UP)
Elizabeth WILSON : Mirror Writing (1982 Virago)
1983 Onwards
SNITOW, STANSELL & THOMPSON : The Politics of Sexuality (1983 Virago)
Barbara TAYLOR : Eve and the New Jerusalem (1983 Virago)
Beatrix CAMPBELL : Wigan Pier Revisited - Poverty and Politics in the '80's (1984 Virago)
(Eds) KANTER, LEFANU, SHAH & SPEDDING : Sweeping Statements - Writings from
the Women's Liberation Movement 1981-83 (1984 Women's Press)
(Ed) Carol VANCE : Pleasure and Danger - Exploring Female Sexuality (1984 RKP)
(Ed) Varda BURSTYN : Women Against Censorship (1985 Douglass & McIntyre, Canada)
Jeffrey WEEKS : Sexuality and Its Discontents - Meanings, Myths and Modern Sexuality
(1985 RKP)
Julie Peakman : Lascivious Bodies - A Sexual History of the 18thC (2004 Atlantic Books £16.99)