Battleground of desire : the struggle for self-control in modern America / Peter N. Stearns.
Battleground of desire : the struggle for self-control in modern America / Peter N. Stearns.
Battleground of desire : the struggle for self-control in modern America / Peter N. Stearns.
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New York : New York University Press, c1999.
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N306.0973/62
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English
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xiii, 434 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
I. The Issues. 1. The Heart of the Matter. 2. Models and Guidelines -- II. The Victorian Legacy and the Beginnings of Change. 3. The Victorian Style. 4. Transitions. 5. Causation -- III. Twentieth-Century Standards. 6. New Combinations. 7. Sexuality. 8. The Body and Health. 9. Addiction and Disease...
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New York : New York University Press, c1999.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c1999.
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Summary
With an emphasis on sex, culture, and discipline of the body, Stearns traces how particular anxieties take root and how they express an inherent tension in the contemporary standards and a stubborn nostalgia for the nineteenth-century regime. Battleground of Desire explodes common wisdom about the twentieth century as tolerant and without norms, em...
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Battleground of desire : the struggle for self-control in modern America / Peter N. Stearns.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-426) and index.
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c1999.
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N306.0973/62
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0814781284
9780814781289 (acid-free paper)
0814781284 (acid-free paper)
9780814781289 (alk. paper)
0814781284 (alk. paper)
9780814781289 :
0814781284 :
9780814781289
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306.0973
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