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Professor Kate Fisher

Publications

Books

with S Szreter, Sex before the Sexual Revolution. Intimate Life in England 1918-1963, CUP, 2010.

Birth control, sex and marriage in Britain 1918-60., Oxford University Press, 2006.

Articles

Contrasting Cultures of Contraception: Birth Control clinics and the working-classes in Britain between the wars, Clio Medica-Amsterdam, vol. 66, 2002, 141-158

Chapters

with R Langlands, The Censorship Myth and the Secret Museum, in Hales S,Paul J (eds) Pompeii in the Public Imagination from its Rediscovery to Today, OUP, 2011

'Lay Back, Enjoy It and Shout Happy England': Sexual Pleasure and Marital Duty in Britain, 1918-1960, in Fisher K,Toulalan S (eds) Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

'It was an unspoken thing': Men, Women and Contraceptive Bargains, in Oris M,Brunet G (eds) Une Demographie Au Feminin - a Female Demography: Risques Et Opportunites Dans Le Parcours De Vie - Risks and Chances in the Life Course, Peter Lang, 2009

with S Szreter, Love and Authority in Mid-Twentieth-Century Marriages: Sharing and Caring, in Delap L,Griffin B,Wills A (eds) The Politics of Domestic Authority in Britain, 1800-2000, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 132-154

with R Langlands, "This Way to the Red Light District": The Internet Generation Visits the Brothel in Pompeii, in Shahabudin K,Lowe D (eds) Classics For All: Reworking Antiquity in Mass Culture, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009

"Teach the miners birth control”: delivering birth control advice in the south Wales Valleys’, in Michael P (eds) Health and Society in Twentieth Century Wales, University of Wales Press, 2006

Contrasting Cultures of Contraception: Birth Control Clinics and the Working-Classes in Britain Between the Wars., in Gijswijt-Hofstra M,VanHeteren GM,Tansey EM (eds) Biographies of Remedies: Drugs, Medicines and Contraceptives in Dutch and Anglo-American Healing Cultures, Rodolphi, 2002, 141-157

Oral History, in Jackson M (eds) Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Articles

with P Dale, Contrasting Municipal Responses to the Provision of Birth Control Services in Halifax and Exeter before 1948, SOC HIST MED, vol. 23, no. 3, 2010, 567-585

with S Szreter, "We weren't the sort that wanted intimacy every night": Birth control and abstinence in England, c.1930-60, History of the Family, vol. 15, no. 2, 2010, 139-160

with P Dale, Implementing the 1902 Midwives Act: assessing problems, developing services and creating a new role for a variety of female practitioners, WOMEN HIST REV, vol. 18, no. 3, 2009, 427-452

with S Szreter, They prefer withdrawal": The choice of birth control in Britain, 1918-1950, J INTERDISCIPL HIST, vol. 34, no. 2, 2003, 263-+

'She was quite satisfied with the arrangements I made': Gender and birth control in Britain 1920-1950, PAST PRESENT, no. 169, 2000, 161-193

Book Reviews

For Their Own Good: The Transformation of English Working-Class Health Culture, 1880-1970., AM HIST REV, vol. 114, no. 5, 2009, 1533-1534

Family affairs: A history of the family in 20th century England., HISTORY, vol. 90, no. 298, 2005, 308-310

Sex, gender and social change in Britain since 1880., POP STUD-J DEMOG, vol. 57, no. 1, 2003, 111-112

Eve's herbs: A history of contraception and abortion in the west, SOC HIST MED, vol. 13, no. 3, 2000, 557-558