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Author:

Simmons, Christina.

Title:

Making marriage modern : women's sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II / Christina Simmons.

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

ix, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Sex in marriage--United States--History--20th century.
Marriage--United States--History--20th century.
Sex customs--United States--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-294) and index.

Contents:

Education for social hygiene -- Sex radical challenges to marriage -- Companionate marriage -- Modern marriage: three visions -- Sexual advice for modern marriage.

Summary:

"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."--Publisher.

ISBN:

0199874034 (pbk.)
9780199874033 (pbk.)

LCCN:

2011292748

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)