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Prescription for heterosexuality : sexual citizenship in the cold war era / Carolyn Herbst Lewis

Lewis, Carolyn Herbst [Verfasser]

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xi, 228 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-8078-9954-0 ; 0-8078-9954-2 ; 978-1-4696-0638-5 ; 1-4696-0638-0 ; 978-0-8078-3425-1

HD 370

 

USA  Nationalbewusstsein  Sexualverhalten  Wertorientierung  Medizin  Soziale Steuerung  Geschichte 1940-1970 

In this lively and engaging work, Carolyn Lewis explores how medical practitioners, especially family physicians, situated themselves as the guardians of Americans' sexual well-being during the early years of the Cold War. She argues that many doctors believed that a satisfying sexual relationship with very specific attributes and boundaries was the foundation of a successful marriage, a fundamental source of happiness in the American family, and a crucial building block of a secure nation. Drawing on hundreds of articles and editorials in medical journals as well as other popular and professi.