Making marriage modern : women's sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II /

"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...

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Main Author: Simmons, Christina
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:Studies in the history of sexuality.
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