Banishing the beast
Lucy Bland1995

sexual politics at the turn of the last century caused public outry, demonstration and petitions, and serious debate among concerned men and women.
The agenda then, as now, focused on key areas, marriages, prositution, birth control, sex. Drawing on concepts from religion and evolutionary theory, feminists attempted to construct a new morality. Sex education was seen as essential, as too was marital reform, but other areas of discussion such as free love and wether or not women experience sexual pleasure remained highly controversial.
Lucy Bland's original research vividly details the private and public debates, the campaigns and the struggles among feminists to resolve these issues.