Family Newspapers?: Sex, Private Life, and the British Popular Press 1918-1978

by Adrian Bingham

Family Newspapers? provides the first detailed historical study of modern popular press coverage of sex and private life, from the start of the mass newspaper reading boom in 1918 to the triumph of the Sun's sexualized journalism in 1978, when circulation overtook that of its rival, the Daily Mirror.

In this period, newspapers were at the heart of British popular culture, and Fleet Street's preoccupation with sex meant that the press was a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199279586
• ISBN13: 9780199279586
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"