Dr Hera Cook

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.

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Sunday 1 November 2009, 10.45am Café
Publications

The Long Sexual Revolution: English women, sex and contraception 1800-1975 (OUP, 2005)


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