Romantic Longings: Love in America, 1830-1980

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ISBN-10:

0415908280

ISBN-13:

9780415908283

Author(s): Seidman, Steven
Edition: 1
Released: Jul 28, 1993
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
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Description:

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.

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