Making marriage modern
Subtitle: women's sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II
By: Christina Simmons.
Series: Studies in the history of sexuality
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780195064117
Subjects: Sex in marriage -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Marriage -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Sex customs -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: "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." -- Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Education for social hygiene; title: Sex radical challenges to marriage; title: Companionate marriage; title: Modern marriage: three visions; title: Sexual advice for modern marriage; title: Conclusion.