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.
Tanya Cheadle is Lecturer in Gender History at the University of Glasgow
Introduction
1 The reach of the 'unco guid'
2 Matrons, maidens and new men
3 Re-sexing religion in suburban Glasgow
4 Realising a more than earthly paradise of love
5 Deeds of daring rectitude
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index