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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955087003321

Autore

Bailey Beth L. <1957->

Titolo

Sex in the heartland / / Beth Bailey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1999

ISBN

9780674261853

0674261852

9780674020399

0674020391

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 265 p., [16]p. of plates. ) : ill

Disciplina

306.70977

Soggetti

Sex customs - Middle West - History - 20th century

Sexual ethics - Middle West - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-250) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Before the Revolution -- 2 Sex and the Therapeutic Culture -- 3 Responsible Sex -- 4 Prescribing the Pill -- 5 Revolutionary Intent -- 6 Sex as a Weapon -- 7 Sex and Liberation -- 8 Remaking Sex -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is the story of the sexual revolution in a small town in Kansas. Bailey argues that the revolution was forged in towns and cities alike, as people struggled over the boundaries of public and private sexual behaviour in postwar America.