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Author Wouters, Cas.

Title Sex and manners : female emancipation in the West, 1890-2000 / Cas Wouters.

Publication Info. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 188 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Theory, culture & society
Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
Note "Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society, Nottingham Trent University."--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and (pages 165-176) and indexes.
Contents Confined to the drawing room -- Dancing fury -- To pay or be paid for? -- Going to work : manners at work -- Developments in courting regimes -- The lust balance of sex and love since the sexual revolution : fuck romance! -- International comparisons, theoretical interpretations, and regularities in processes of emanicipation and integration.
Summary Sex and Manners is dazzling book that examines changes in American, Dutch, English and German manners books regarding the changing relationship between men and women. It examines the disappearance of rules for chaperonage and the rise of new codes for public transport, public dances, courting, dates and the work place.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Women -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Women -- Social life and customs.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Women.
Women -- Social life and customs -- Cross-cultural studies.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Subject Etiquette for women -- History.
Etiquette for women.
History.
Sexual ethics for women -- History.
Sexual ethics for women.
Man-woman relationships -- History.
Man-woman relationships.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books -- Cross-cultural studies -- History.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Wouters, Cas. Sex and manners. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2004 (DLC) 2005295200
ISBN 9781412933872 (electronic book)
1412933870 (electronic book)
9781412929189
1412929180 (Perfect)
9781446222096 (ebook)
1446222098 (ebook)
0803983697
9780803983694
Standard No. 9781412929189