From Front Porch to Back Seat

Courtship in Twentieth-Century America

Beth L. Bailey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

1989
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-3935-1 (ISBN)

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"Whether or not we've come a long way since then, this engaging study of courtship shows that at least half the fun is in reading about getting there."--'St. Louis Post-Dispatch.'

Beth Bailey teaches American history and is the director of American Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of The First Strange Place: Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Calling Cards and Money
Chapter 2. The Economy of Dating
Chapter 3. The Worth of a Date
Chapter 4. Sex Control
Chapter 5. The Etiquette of Masculinity and Femininity
Chapter 6. Scientific Truth and Love
Epilogue
Notes
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.9.1989
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	149 x 229 mm
Gewicht	295 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-8018-3935-1 / 0801839351
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-3935-1 / 9780801839351
Zustand	Neuware