Bodies, Love, and Faith in the First World War

Dardanella and Peter

AvNancy Christie,Michael Gauvreau

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

This study offers an unprecedented perspective on one couple’s sexual practices, which included mutual masturbation and oral sex, and constitutes one of the most intensive examinations of female attitudes to sexual pleasure in an era of female emancipation.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-05-07
Mått:148 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt:548 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Genders and Sexualities in History
Antal sidor:319
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319728346

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Nancy Christie is Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Previous publications include Engendering the State: Family, Work and Welfare in Canada (2000), which was awarded the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for best book in Canadian history in 2001, and A Full-Orbed Christianity: The Protestant Churches and Social Welfare in Canada (1996).Michael Gauvreau is Professor of History at McMaster University, Canada. Previous publications include The Catholic Origins of Quebec’s Quiet Revolution (2005), which was awarded the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for best book in Canadian history in 2006, and The Hand of God: Claude Ryan and the Fate of Canadian Liberalism, 1925-1971 (2017).

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“Historians of gender, sexuality, and religion will find a great deal to interest them in this valuable volume.” (Mo Moulton, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 60 (1), January, 2021)

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Introduction: Making Love Sexual in the Edwardian Age.- Chapter 2: The Emotional Body: Religion and Male Friendship at Oxford.- Chapter 3: “Phallic Thumbs”: Conceiving a New Eden.- Chapter 3: The Carnal Brother Body: Emotion, Interiority, and the Epistolary “Talking Cure”.- Chapter 5: The Gendered Body: Marriage and a “home of my own”.- Chapter 6: Purring Vaginas and Waggling Penises: Sexting World War I.- Chapter 7: The Maternal Body: Pregnancy, Child-Rearing, and Birth Control.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: “Are the Thumbs Still Wagging?”: Gwyneth, Harry and the Psyche of an Age.- Bibliography.- Index.