num_pages: 181
description: From gentleman callers to big men on campus, from Coke dates to "parking," From Front Porch to Back Seat is the vivid history of dating in America. In chronicling a dramatic shift in patterns of courtship between the 1920s and the 1960s, Beth Bailey offers a provocative view of how we sought out mates-and of what accounted for our behavior. More than a quarter-century has passed since the dating system Bailey describes here lost its coherence and dominance. Yet the legacy of the system remains a strong part of our culture's attempt to define female and male roles alike.
language: English
title: From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America
titlecomplete: From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America
genres: Gender, 20th Century, Nonfiction, Historical, Sexuality, School, American History, Sociology, Romance, History
ratings_count: 321
publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press