Making marriage modern : women's sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II /
Simmons describes the emergence of 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 r...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2009.
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| Series: | Studies in the history of sexuality.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Simmons describes the emergence of 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 306 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-294) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199723553 0199723559 9780199869565 0199869561 |