Hera Cook is a New Zealander who lectures in the history of women and sexuality at the University of Birmingham. Her research themes are children and sexuality and the management of emotion in England from 1930-1980. |
The Long Sexual Revolution: English women, sex and contraception 1800-1975 (OUP, 2005)
"Just when Kant's formulation that 'the public exercise of reason should be free' had begun to seem so remote and exhausted, the Battle should reinforce one's faith in the enduring worth of dissent and of the free traffic in ideas"
Swapan Chakravorty, professor of english, Jadavpur University