Chapter A private matter? The Brook Advisory Centre and young people's everyday sexual and reproductive health in the 1960s-80s
This chapter explores the role of the Brook Advisory Centres (BAC) in the everyday sexual and reproductive health of young people in postwar Britain. BAC was the first organisation to provide sexual health advice and methods to unmarried young people. As such, it operated at the intersection of the...
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| description | This chapter explores the role of the Brook Advisory Centres (BAC) in the everyday sexual and reproductive health of young people in postwar Britain. BAC was the first organisation to provide sexual health advice and methods to unmarried young people. As such, it operated at the intersection of the private and public realms. Drawing on archival materials, oral history interviews, and teenage magazines, this chapter examines BAC’s tactics for intervening in young people’s intimate lives, their activities in public forums from schools to magazines, and their success in shaping the everyday sexual and reproductive health of young people between 1964 and the outset of the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s – including attempts to make sex education more inclusive and so to reshape concepts of ‘everyday sex’. Operating at the cusp of private and public life, BAC constituted a key channel of information on everyday sexual and reproductive health in postwar Britain and helped to foster a more inclusive view of sex education, where information on contraception was not limited to able-bodied young women. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1625132025-07-05T05:06:02Z Chapter A private matter? The Brook Advisory Centre and young people's everyday sexual and reproductive health in the 1960s-80s Rusterholz, Caroline everyday health health humanities intersectionality medical humanities social history of medicine wellbeing thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999 This chapter explores the role of the Brook Advisory Centres (BAC) in the everyday sexual and reproductive health of young people in postwar Britain. BAC was the first organisation to provide sexual health advice and methods to unmarried young people. As such, it operated at the intersection of the private and public realms. Drawing on archival materials, oral history interviews, and teenage magazines, this chapter examines BAC’s tactics for intervening in young people’s intimate lives, their activities in public forums from schools to magazines, and their success in shaping the everyday sexual and reproductive health of young people between 1964 and the outset of the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s – including attempts to make sex education more inclusive and so to reshape concepts of ‘everyday sex’. Operating at the cusp of private and public life, BAC constituted a key channel of information on everyday sexual and reproductive health in postwar Britain and helped to foster a more inclusive view of sex education, where information on contraception was not limited to able-bodied young women. 2025-07-04T05:04:07Z 2025-07-04T05:04:07Z 2025-07-03T15:02:49Z 2024 chapter ONIX_20250703T165813_9781526170675_4 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/103937 9781526170675 9781526170651 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/162513 eng Social Histories of Medicine open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/103937/1/9781526170675-ch7.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/103937/1/9781526170675-ch7.pdf Manchester University Press Manchester University Press 10.7765/9781526170675 10.7765/9781526170675 bcb4ab08-c525-4e6c-88e5-a0cf0a175533 ‘Everyday health’, embodiment, and selfhood since 1950 Wellcome Trust d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 343879dd-7955-422b-881a-bf482aa661e2 9781526170675 9781526170651 Wellcome Manchester University Press 22 Manchester [...] [...] open access |
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