Making Marriage Modern - Women's Sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II

Zusatztext Simmons' complex interpretation of white and African American sources maps a range of competing sexual ideals. Grounded in sex advice literature, marriage manuals, and reform tracts, this book will fascinate readers and provide important perspectives on contemporary debates over sex education, reproductive rights, and the changing definition of marriage. Informationen zum Autor Christina Simmons is Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Windsor Klappentext Making Marriage Modern explains the emergence a new form of relationship between the sexes-the "companionate marriage"- which incorporated birth control and an active sexual role for wives. While displacing Victorian marriage and femininity, the companionate ideal prevailed by the 1940s and set the standard against which second-wave feminists rebelled. Zusammenfassung Making Marriage Modern explains the emergence a new form of relationship between the sexes-the "companionate marriage"- which incorporated birth control and an active sexual role for wives. While displacing Victorian marriage and femininity, the companionate ideal prevailed by the 1940s and set the standard against which second-wave feminists rebelled.

Product details

• Authors: Simmonds, Christina Simmons, Christina (Assistant Professor of History Simmons
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 21.04.2009, delayed
• EAN: 9780195064117
• ISBN: 978-0-19-506411-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Studies in the History of Sexuality; Studies in the History of Sexu; Studies in the History of Sexuality; Studies in the History of Sexu
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology