Sexual Progressives: Reimagining Intimacy in Scotland, 1880-1914

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Sexual Progressives is a major new study of the feminists and socialists who campaigned against the moral conservatism of Victorian Scotland. Drawing on a range of sources, from letters and diaries to radical newspapers and utopian novels, its arguments disrupt current understandings of progressive thought and behaviour in fin de siecle Britain. -- .

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'Her book is beautifully written, thoroughly researched, and elegantly argued. Cheadle brings to life a cast of Scottish progressivesBella Pearce, Charles Pearce, Anna Geddes, Patrick Geddes, and Jane Hume Clappertonand the networks and discourse they created.'
Mary Linehan, Journal of British Studies

'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.'
Kate Barclay, VICTORIAN STUDIES / VOLUME 64, NO. 1

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Tanya Cheadle is Lecturer in Gender History at the University of Glasgow