Overview
- Situates the Vatican’s controversial intervention in sexual ethics within the context of debates about ‘birth control’ and sex within marriage
- Brings together historians of gender, sexuality and modern Catholicism to discuss the reactions to, and reception of, the Encyclical across Europe
- Contextualises and illuminates the lived history of the Second Vatican Council
Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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To the Barricades
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Episcopal Controversies
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Christian Science and Catholic Conservatism
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Church, State and Contraception
Reviews
“The book offers some important lessons and frameworks for a project which could work on a global scale. … this book broadens our understanding of how ‘liberal’ ideas intersected with religious beliefs at a moment of profound agitation.” (David Geiringer, British Catholic History, Vol. 34 (3), May, 2019)
“A genuinely groundbreaking collection, where international and interdisciplinary new scholarship explores the relationship between Roman Catholicism and global developments in sexuality and women's reproductive rights in the `radical 1960s'. … The Schism of'68: Catholics, Contraception and `Humanae Vitae' in Europe, 1945-1975 presents a multifaceted and meticulously researched scholarly collection, and isa sophisticated contribution to our understanding of the past.” (Scriptable, rtreview.org, Issue 21, June, 2018)
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Book Title: The Schism of ’68
Book Subtitle: Catholicism, Contraception and Humanae Vitae in Europe, 1945-1975
Editors: Alana Harris
Series Title: Genders and Sexualities in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70811-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70810-2Published: 15 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09995-4Published: 15 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70811-9Published: 02 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2730-9479
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9487
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 377
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Modern Europe, Cultural History, Gender and Sexuality, History of Religion, Social History