{"product_id":"sexual-progressives-reimagining-intimacy-in-scotland-1880-1914-9781526160461","title":"Sexual Progressives: Reimagining Intimacy in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSexual Progressives \u003c\/i\u003eis a major new study of the feminists and socialists who campaigned against the moral conservatism of the Victorian period. Drawing on a range of sources, from letters and diaries to radical newspapers and utopian novels, it provides the first group portrait of Scotland’s hitherto neglected sexual rebels. They include Bella and Charles Pearce, prominent Glasgow socialists and disciples of an American-based mystic who taught that religion needed ‘re-sexed’; Jane Hume Clapperton, a feminist freethinker with advanced views on birth-control and women’s right to sexual pleasure; and Patrick Geddes, founder of an avant-garde Edinburgh subculture and co-author of an influential scientific book on sex. A consideration of their lives and work forces a reappraisal of our understanding of British sexual progressivism during this period and will therefore be of interest to all historians of modern gender and sexuality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Her book is beautifully written, thoroughly researched, and elegantly argued. Cheadle brings to life a cast of Scottish progressives—Bella Pearce, Charles Pearce, Anna Geddes,   Patrick Geddes, and Jane Hume Clapperton—and the networks and discourse they created.'\u003cbr\u003eMary Linehan, \u003ci\u003eJournal of British Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e'Sexual Progressives is beautifully constructed, offering a distinct and original Scottish  dimension to a history of ideas and attitudes to progressive sex that has largely centered  on Bohemian spaces in major cities.'\u003cbr\u003eKate Barclay\u003ci\u003e, VICTORIAN STUDIES \/ VOLUME 64, NO. 1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1 The reach of the 'unco guid'\u003cbr\u003e2 Matrons, maidens and new men\u003cbr\u003e3 Re-sexing religion in suburban Glasgow\u003cbr\u003e4 Realising a more than earthly paradise of love\u003cbr\u003e5 Deeds of daring rectitude\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eSelect bibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041025261911,"sku":"9781526160461","price":24.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sexual-progressives-reimagining-intimacy-in-scotland-1880-1914-9781526160461","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}