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Norman Haire and the study of sex / Diana Wyndham ; [foreword by Michael Kirby].

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: [Sydney] : Sydney University Press, 2012.Description: 485 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims, maps, ports. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781743320068 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.666 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ
Summary: Norman Haire had always wanted to be an actor. Forced to study medicine, he followed his other passion: saving the world from sexual misery. When he arrived in London in 1919 he was a poor Jewish outsider from Australia. By 1930 he had a flourishing gynaecology practice in Harley Street, a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce and a country house. His parties were attended by the medical, intellectual and cultural elite. As a prominent sexologist and a campaigner for birth control, Haire took a leading role in the world's first international conference on birth control in 1922 and organised, with Dora Russell, the World League for Sexual Reform's highly successful 1929 Congress in London. He lectured in America, Germany, France and Spain, and wrote and edited many accessible books on sex education.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 304.666 WYN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 66956

Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-468) and index.

Norman Haire had always wanted to be an actor. Forced to study medicine, he followed his other passion: saving the world from sexual misery. When he arrived in London in 1919 he was a poor Jewish outsider from Australia. By 1930 he had a flourishing gynaecology practice in Harley Street, a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce and a country house. His parties were attended by the medical, intellectual and cultural elite. As a prominent sexologist and a campaigner for birth control, Haire took a leading role in the world's first international conference on birth control in 1922 and organised, with Dora Russell, the World League for Sexual Reform's highly successful 1929 Congress in London. He lectured in America, Germany, France and Spain, and wrote and edited many accessible books on sex education.

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