Permission and regulation : law and morals in post-war Britain

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Permission and regulation : law and morals in post-war Britain

Tim Newburn

Routledge, 1992

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  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-220) and index

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This study examines the period that we still colloquially refer to as "the permissive age" - the 1960s. Perhaps more than any other period in our recent history, that decade has been the source of some apparently imperishable myths. "Permission and Regulation" attempts to separate the myths from the realities. It focuses upon a series of legislative changes that are commonly held to illustrate the permissive or liberal character of the era. These central case studies - of the law in relation to abortion, obscenity, homosexuality and prostitution - cast doubt on the view propounded by politicians and moralists that such changes indicated moral relaxation and increasing sexual licence. The book argues that the ideology of permissiveness requires close examination and analyzes the campaigns of Mary Whitehouse to try and pinpoint how this ideology was constructed, applied and challenged. The final chapter compares the permissive era to the moral politics of the Thatcher decade.

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1. Permissiveness: accounts, discourses and explanations, 2. Permissiveness and moral protest: Mary Whitehouse and the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, 3. The Wolfenden Report and legislative change, 4. Obscenity and the law: the permissive years? 5. Obscenity and the law: backlash? 6. A woman's right to choose? Abortion and the law in post-war Britain 7. Morality, the law and contemporary social change, 8. Thatcherism and the politics of morality.

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