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Sexual Politics and the Future of the Nation: Eugenics and Neo-Malthusianism Sexual Politics and the Future of the Nation: Eugenics and Neo-Malthusianism
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Speaking of Sex and Inciting Debate in the Freewoman Speaking of Sex and Inciting Debate in the Freewoman
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Male Homosexuality in the Freewoman Male Homosexuality in the Freewoman
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Responses to the Freewoman Responses to the Freewoman
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Feminist Women and Homosexual Men: Alliance and Exclusion Feminist Women and Homosexual Men: Alliance and Exclusion
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Stella Browne and Edith Ellis: Eugenics, Sexology, and Women’s Sexual Variations Stella Browne and Edith Ellis: Eugenics, Sexology, and Women’s Sexual Variations
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Conclusion Conclusion
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3 “A more Splendid Citizenship”: Prewar Feminism, Eugenics, and Sex Radicals
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Published:August 2010
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Abstract
In the 1910s, birth control, free love, and male homosexuality appeared frequently as topics alongside women’s suffrage in the pages of the Dora Marsden’s Freewoman journal. Yet any significant discussion of female homosexuality is notably absent among these frank discussion. This chapter explores the paucity of representations of prewar female homosexuality in the face of frequent discussions of male homosexuality and female heterosexuality among prewar feminists. By reading debates over spinsters, male homosexuality, and sex reform by a group of self-styled sex radicals, it traces the emergence of female homosexuality as a representational possibility in the years leading up to the Great War. It argues that the terms through which this category emerged reflect a struggle over the meaning of British sexual subjectivity and the nation’s eugenic future.
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