ABSTRACT
First published in 1995. This book provides the only feminist overview of the development of both the mainstream and the feminist variant of the survey as a means of investigating sexual attitude and behaviour. Illuminating reading for the general reader, essential for students on Sexuality, Methodology, Women’s Studies a d British Modern Social History courses and key text for all Sociologists.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section-One|64 pages
Mass-Observation, 'Little Kinsey' and the Sex Survey Tradition
chapter Introduction|8 pages
'Little Kinsey' – Some Feminist Issues and Interests
chapter Chapter 1|8 pages
Britain, by Mass-Observation
chapter Chapter 2|9 pages
From Observing to Surveying, from Seatown to 'Little Kinsey'
chapter Chapter 3|8 pages
Mass-Observation's Sex Research, 1937–1949
chapter Chapter 4|22 pages
From Patterns of Marriage to Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles: The Sex Survey in Context
chapter Chapter 5|7 pages
Theorizing While Appearing Not To? Ideas and the British Sex Survey
part Section-Two|140 pages
'Little Kinsey': Mass-Observation's Sexy Survey of 1949
chapter |3 pages
Preface
part A|4 pages
The Survey
chapter Chapter One|4 pages
Sex Surveyed
part B|37 pages
The Mechanics of Sex
chapter Chapter Two|12 pages
The Facts of Life
chapter Chapter Three|9 pages
Sex Education
chapter Chapter Four|16 pages
Birth Control
part C|21 pages
Institutions of Sex
part D|23 pages
Outside Marriage
chapter Chapter Seven|11 pages
Sex Outside Marriage
chapter CHAPTER Eight|12 pages
Prostitution
part E|38 pages
Sex and Life
chapter Chapter Nine|11 pages
The Psychology of Sex
chapter Chapter Ten|24 pages
Sexual Morality and the Position Today
chapter Chapter Eleven|3 pages
Opinion Forming Vanguards and Resistance Forces
part Appendices|12 pages
chapter Appendix One|6 pages
The Sex Habits of a Group
chapter Appendix Two|6 pages
Homosexual Groups (note 1)
part Section-Three|32 pages
The Feminist Surveys Back