Battleground of desire

the struggle for self-control in modern America

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Battleground of desire

the struggle for self-control in modern America

With an emphasis on sex, culture, and discipline of the body, Stearns traces how particular anxieties take root and how they express an inherent tension in the contemporary standards and a stubborn nostalgia for the nineteenth-century regime. Battleground of Desire explodes common wisdom about the twentieth century as tolerant and without norms, emphasizing that most of us follow all sorts of rules, governing everything from adultery to bad breath.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
434

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-426) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306/.0973
Library of Congress
E169.12 .S82 1999, E169.12.S82 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 434 p. :
Number of pages
434

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL530104M
ISBN 10
0814781284
LCCN
99006177
OCLC/WorldCat
99006177, 40869635
LibraryThing
2615202
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
1010307

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1855454W

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