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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 re...

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Egile nagusia: Simmons, Christina
Formatua: eBook
Hizkuntza:English
Argitaratua: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009.
Saila:Studies in the history of sexuality.
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Gaia: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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Deskribapen fisikoa:1 online resource (ix, 306 p.) : ill.
Bibliografia:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199869565 (ebook) :