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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788035303321

Titolo

Love and Romance in Britain, 1918 - 1970 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by A. Harris, T. Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015

ISBN

1-349-46043-5

1-137-32863-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Genders and Sexualities in History, , 2730-9479

Disciplina

305.30941

Soggetti

Sociology

Social history

World War, 1939-1945

History, Modern

Military history

Imperialism

Gender Studies

Social History

History of World War II and the Holocaust

Modern History

History of Military

Imperialism and Colonialism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Historicizing 'Modern' Love and Romance; 1 Love and Romance in Interwar British Women's Autobiography; 2 The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain; 3 Love, Sex, Work and Friendship: Northern, Working-Class Men and Sexuality in the First Half of the Twentieth Century; 4 'A Certain Amount of Mush': Love, Romance, Celluloid and Wax in the Mid-Twentieth Century

5 Love Beyond the Frame: Stories of Maternal Love Outside Marriage in



the 1950s and 1960s6 Love, Honour and Obey? Romance, Subordination and Marital Subjectivity in Interwar Britain; 7 Love in Later Life: Old Age, Marriage and Social Research in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain; 8 'The Love of a Pitiable Dog': Gregariousness, Reciprocity and Altruism in Early Twentieth-Century British Social Psychology; 9 Love Divine and Love Sublime: The Catholic Marriage Advisory Council, the Marriage Guidance Movement and the State; 10 Nova 1965-1970: Love, Masculinity and Feminism, but Not as We Know It

AfterwordSelect Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The new histories of love and romance offered within this edited collection illustrate the many changes, but also the surprising continuities in understandings of love, romance, affection, intimacy and sex from the First World War until the beginning of the Women's Liberation movement.