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Sex before the sexual revolution : intimate life in England 1918-1963 /

Intriguing insight into attitudes toward sexuality in marriage, based on first-hand interviews with a socially diverse range of people.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Szreter, Simon (Autor), Fisher, Kate (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Colección:Cambridge social and cultural histories ; 16.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Oral history and private lives; What's in it for them?; The interviewees and their historical contexts; How historians have understood marriage and intimacy in this period; This book's scope and its limitations; Part I What was sex?; 2 The facts of life: learning about sex in childhood and youth; 3 Sexual intimacies before marriage; Part II What was love?; 4 Romance and love: finding a partner; 5 Married love: caring and sharing; Part III Exploring sex and love in marriage; 6 Birth control, sex and abstinence.
  • 7 Bodies8 Sex, love, duty, pleasure?; 9 The morning after; 10 Conclusion: private lives; Appendix A: The oral history sample: summary of project design and socio-demographic characteristics of the interviewees in Blackburn and north-west Hertfordshire; Appendix B: Note on social classification of the respondents; Appendix C; Bibliography; Index; Index of interviewees.