Bodies, Love, and Faith in the First World War

Dardanella and Peter

Nancy Christie, Michael Gauvreau (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

XV, 319 Seiten

2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-72834-6 (ISBN)

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This book explores the courtship and marriage of Gwyneth Murray, an English woman, and a Canadian, Harry Logan, who wrote in the personae of their vagina (Dardanella) and penis (Peter) during World War I. Through an analysis of their extensive daily correspondence over nearly a decade, it uncovers the couple's changing attitudes to the intersection of sexuality and religion, to marriage and childrearing, as they navigated the transition from Victorian to modern values. By focusing on first-person narratives, this book enriches our understanding of gender identities revealing how porous the boundaries remained between notions of 'heterosexual' and 'same-sex' friendships. This study offers an unprecedented perspective on one couple's sexual practices, which included mutual masturbation and oral sex, and constitutes one of the most intensive examinations of female attitudes to sexual pleasure in an era of female emancipation.

Nancy Christie is Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Previous publications include Engendering the State: Family, Work and Welfare in Canada (2000), which was awarded the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for best book in Canadian history in 2001, and A Full-Orbed Christianity: The Protestant Churches and Social Welfare in Canada (1996). Michael Gauvreau is Professor of History at McMaster University, Canada. Previous publications include The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution (2005), which was awarded the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for best book in Canadian history in 2006, and The Hand of God: Claude Ryan and the Fate of Canadian Liberalism, 1925-1971 (2017).

Chapter 1. Introduction: Making Love Sexual in the Edwardian Age.- Chapter 2: The Emotional Body: Religion and Male Friendship at Oxford.- Chapter 3: "Phallic Thumbs": Conceiving a New Eden.- Chapter 3: The Carnal Brother Body: Emotion, Interiority, and the Epistolary "Talking Cure".- Chapter 5: The Gendered Body: Marriage and a "home of my own".- Chapter 6: Purring Vaginas and Waggling Penises: Sexting World War I.- Chapter 7: The Maternal Body: Pregnancy, Child-Rearing, and Birth Control.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: "Are the Thumbs Still Wagging?": Gwyneth, Harry and the Psyche of an Age.- Bibliography.- Index.

"Historians of gender, sexuality, and religion will find a great deal to interest them in this valuable volume." (Mo Moulton, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 60 (1), January, 2021)

Erscheinungsdatum	07.05.2018
Reihe/Serie	Genders and Sexualities in History
Zusatzinfo	XV, 319 p. 4 illus., 2 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	695 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	Companionate Marriage • First World War • Gender and Sexuality • history of emotions • Modernity • Victorianism
ISBN-10	3-319-72834-2 / 3319728342
ISBN-13	978-3-319-72834-6 / 9783319728346
Zustand	Neuware