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

Name: Making Marriage Modern Women's Sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II
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ISBN: 9780199874033

ISBN-10: 0199874034

ISBN-13: 9780199874033

Edition: 2012

Authors: Christina Simmons

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The nineteenth-century middle-class ideal of the married woman was of a chaste and diligent wife focused on being a loving mother, with few needs or rights of her own. The modern woman, by contrast, was partner to a new model of marriage, one in which she and her husband formed a relationship based on greater sexual and psychological equality. In Making Marriage Modern, Christina Simmons narrates the development of this new companionate marriage ideal, which took hold in the early twentieth century and prevailed in American society by the 1940s.The first challenges to public reticence to discuss sexual relations between husbands and wives came from social hygiene reformers, who advocated…

Book details

List price: $45.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English