ISBN:
9781439908051
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (259 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Sexuality Studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Making Modern Love : Sexual Narratives and Identities in Interwar Britain
DDC:
305.800941
Keywords:
Sex - Great Britain - History - 20th century
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
After the Great War, British men and women grappled with their ignorance about sexuality and desire. Seeking advice and information from doctors, magazines, and each other, they wrote tens of thousands of letters about themselves as sexual subjects. In these letters, they disclosed their uncertainties, their behaviors, and the role of sexuality in their lives. Their fascinating narratives tell how people sought to unleash their imaginations and fashion new identities.Making Modern Love shows how readers embraced popular media-self-help books, fetish magazines, and advice columns-as a source of
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Narratives and Identity; 1. Reading Matters; 2. Reading Married Love; 3. Fashioning Fetishism from the Pages of London Life; Illustrations; 4. Mr. Hyde and the Cross-Dressing Kink; 5. Whipping Stories in the Pages of the PRO; Conclusion: Narratives and History; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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