Battleground of desire
Subtitle: the struggle for self-control in modern America
By: Peter N. Stearns.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
Subjects: Self-control -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Self-control -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Description: With an emphasis on sex, culture, and discipline of the body, Stearns traces how particular anxieties take root and how they express an inherent tension in the contemporary standards and a stubborn nostalgia for the nineteenth-century regime. Battleground of Desire explodes common wisdom about the twentieth century as tolerant and without norms, emphasizing that most of us follow all sorts of rules, governing everything from adultery to bad breath.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-426) and index.