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104 McLeod, Religious Crisis, pp. 52–5.
105 For some of this evidence, see E. Ferri, J. Bynner and M. Wadsworth (eds),
Changing Britain, Changing Lives: Three Generations at the Turn of the
Century, London, Institute of Education, 2003, p. 271; C.G. Brown, ‘Religion
and secularisation’, in A. Dickson and J.H. Treble (eds), People and Society in
Scotland: vol. 3, 1914–1990, Edinburgh, John Donald, 1992.
106 Recent important contributions include J. Wolffe, The Expansion of Evangelicalism:
The Age of Wilberforce, More, Chalmers and Finney, Downers Grove, Ill.,
InterVarsity Press, 2007, especially pp. 126–58; N.F. Christie (ed.), Households
of Faith: Family, Gender and Community in Canada 1760–1969, Montreal,
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002. See also D.W. Bebbington, The
Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody, Leicester,
InterVarsity Press, 2005, pp. 202–12.
107 Taylor, Secular Age, p. 494. One Christian historian imagined that I was out of
line with this type of work: Whyte, who claims to detect ‘more than a whiff of
Whiggery about Brown’s account’, misreported that my contention was ‘that in
the Victorian era men abandoned the church, leaving piety the preserve of
women’. W. Whyte, ‘The Jackie Generation: girls’ magazines, pop music, and the
discourse revolution’, in Garnet et al., Redefining Christian Britain, pp. 128, 131.
108 U. King and T. Beattie (eds), Gender, Religion and Diversity: Cross-cultural
Perspectives, London, Continuum, 2004.
109 L. Wilson, Constrained by Zeal: Female Spirituality amongst Nonconformists,
1825–1875, Carlisle, Paternoster Press, 2000.
110 Van Rooden, ‘Oral history’.
111 Brown, Religion and Society, pp. 225–70; idem., ‘Secularisation, the growth of
militancy and the spiritual revolution: religious change and gender power in
Britain 1901–2001’, Historical Research, vol. 80, 2007, pp. 393–418; Brown,
‘Gendering secularisation’.
112 McLeod, Religious Crisis, p. 57.
113 F. Laffitte, ‘The users of birth control clinics’, Population Studies, vol. 16, 1962,
pp. 12–30, at p. 12; L. McCormick, ‘“The Scarlet Woman in Person”: The
establishment of a family planning service in Northern Ireland, 1950–1974’,
Social History of Medicine, vol. 21, no. 2, 2008, pp. 345–60.
114 McLeod, Religious Crisis, pp. 161, 163. H. Cook, The Long Sexual Revolution:
English Women, Sex and Contraception 1800–1975, Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 2004, pp. 1–2; K. Fisher, Birth Control, Sex and Marriage in Britain,
1918–1960, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 8. A number of women
and reviewers wrote to me about failing to mention the pill in the first edition
of this book; the omission was an accident when a paragraph was deleted before
publication. McLeod suggested in a private communication that a rise in the
use of condoms in the 1950s might have achieved a reduction in the illegitimacy
rate, but so far I have seen no demographer make this argument.
115 Though Whyte seems to think that the rise of Jackie from 1964 with just this
revolutionary core message was not somehow overturning traditional
discourses of training for marriage: Whyte, ‘Jackie Generation’, pp. 132–3.
116 Quoted in D. Kynaston, Austerity Britain, London, Bloomsbury, 2007, pp. 374–5.
117 G. Gorer, Exploring English Character, London, Cresset Press, 1955; Kynaston,
Austerity Britain, p. 375.
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