Abstract

A neglected aspect of the perceived "embourgeoisement" of the British working-classes in the 1950s was the representation of a blurring of class difference around questions of sexuality.  In different ways, female bodies and sexuality in the postwar period became a means of talking about changing class identity and the modernization of society.  In the 1920s and 1930s, the working-class body and working-class sexuality served as counterpoints to largely middle-class ideas of modern femininity and sexuality.  Working-class women's inability to control their reproduction was portrayed as one cause of the deprivation experienced by the working classes.

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