TY  - BOOK
AU  - Simmons,Christina
TI  - Making marriage modern: women's sexuality from the progressive era to World War II 
T2  - Studies in the history of sexuality
SN  - 9780199869565 (ebook) :
AV  - HQ18.U5 
U1  - 646.780973 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Sex in marriage
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Sex customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Simmons describes the emergence of the 'companionate marriage' which incorporated birth control and an active sexual role for wives. While displacing Victorian marriage and femininity, the companionate ideal prevailed by the 1940s and set the standard against which second-wave feminists rebelled
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195064117.001.0001
ER  -