Making Marriage Modern: Women's Sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II by Christina Simmons

Making Marriage Modern: Women's Sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II

Christina Simmons

306 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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 w...

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