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Making Marriage Modern: Women's Sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II - Studies in the History of Sexuality Simmons, Christina (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, University of Connecticut)
Making Marriage Modern: Women's Sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II - Studies in the History of Sexuality
Simmons, Christina (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, University of Connecticut)
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.
318 pages, 9 black and white half tones
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 23, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195064117 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 320 |
| Dimensions | 236 × 163 × 33 mm · 646 g |
| Language | English |