Battleground of desire
the struggle for self-control in modern America
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Author
Publication
1999 - New York University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
108,500 words, Guess
Page Count
434 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL530104M
- ISBN-100814781284
- OCLC Control Number99006177
- OCLC Control Number40869635
- OCLC Control Numberbattlegroundofde0000stea
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- Library of Congress Control Number99006177
- Goodreads1010307
- LibraryThing2615202
Classifications
- DDC306/.0973
- LCCE169.12 .S82 1999
Description
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.
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