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The nineteenth-century middle-class ideal of the married woman was of a chaste and diligent wife focused on being a loving mother, with few needs or rights of her own. The modern woman, by contrast, was partner to a new model of marriage, one in which she and her husband formed a relationship based on greater sexual and psychological equality. In Making Marriage Modern, Christina Simmons narrates the development of this new companionate marriage ideal, which took hold in the early twentieth century and prevailed in American society by the 1940s. The first challenges to public reticence to discuss sexual relations between husbands and wives came from social hygiene reformers, who advocated for a scientific but conservative sex education to combat prostitution and venereal disease. A more radical group of feminists, anarchists, and bohemians opposed the Victorian model of marriage and even the institution of marriage. Birth control advocates such as Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger openly championed women's rights to acquire and use effective contraception. The

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• Full title: Making Marriage Modern
• Subtitle: Women's Sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II
• Author: Christina Simmons
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780199874033
• ISBN: 0199874034
• ID: 04536464
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 471 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 157 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. January 2012

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