ISBN:
9780807899540
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (241 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
DDC:
306.764097309045
Keywords:
Geschichte 1940-1970
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Sexualverhalten
;
Wertorientierung
;
Medizin
;
Soziale Steuerung
;
USA
Abstract:
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 professional literature, Lewis traces how medical professionals gave certain heterosexual desires and acts a veritable stamp of approval while labeling others as unhealthy or deviant.
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