Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Love in America, 1830-1980
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
ISBN: 978-0-415-90828-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
In Romantic Longings Steven Seidman offers an original perspective on the origins and current meaning of the American intimate culture. Drawing on a wide range of sources--sex surveys, advice literature, autobiographies, novels--he charts a change from a Victorian spiritual ideal to efforts by current reformers to sexualize love. Stressing that contemporary notions of intimacy are grounded in twentieth-century historical developments, he observes the birth of a culture of eroticism in the post-World War II years--a culture where sexuality is conceived as both a sphere of love and intimacy and a domain of pleasure and self-expression.
