Love And Romance In Britain, 1918 - 1970 (genders And Sexualities In History)

The new histories of love and romance offered within this edited collection illustrate the many changes, but also the surprising continuities in understandings of love, romance, affection, intimacy and sex from the First World War until the beginning of the Women's Liberation movement.Contents:Introduction: Historicizing ‘Modern’ Love and RomanceLove and Romance in Interwar British Women’s AutobiographyThe Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century BritainLove, Sex, Work and Friendship: Northern, Working-Class Men and Sexuality in the First Half of the Twentieth Century‘A Certain Amount of Mush’: Love, Romance, Celluloid and Wax in the Mid-Twentieth CenturyLove Beyond the Frame: Stories of Maternal Love Outside Marriage in the 1950s and 1960sLove, Honour and Obey? Romance, Subordination and Marital Subjectivity in Interwar BritainLove in Later Life: Old Age, Marriage and Social Research in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain‘The Love of a Pitiable Dog’: Gregariousness, Reciprocity and Altruism in Early Twentieth-Century British Social PsychologyLove Divine and Love Sublime: The Catholic Marriage Advisory Council, the Marriage Guidance Movement and the StateNova 1965–1970: Love, Masculinity and Feminism, but Not as We Know ItAfterword Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction: Historicizing ‘Modern’ Love and Romance....Pages 1-19 Love and Romance in Interwar British Women’s Autobiography....Pages 20-40 The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain....Pages 41-60 Love, Sex, Work and Friendship: Northern, Working-Class Men and Sexuality in the First Half of the Twentieth Century....Pages 61-80 ‘A Certain Amount of Mush’: Love, Romance, Celluloid and Wax in the Mid-Twentieth Century....Pages 81-99 Love Beyond the Frame: Stories of Maternal Love Outside Marriage in the 1950s and 1960s....Pages 100-123 Love, Honour and Obey? Romance, Subordination and Marital Subjectivity in Interwar Britain....Pages 124-143 Love in Later Life: Old Age, Marriage and Social Research in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain....Pages 144-160 ‘The Love of a Pitiable Dog’: Gregariousness, Reciprocity and Altruism in Early Twentieth-Century British Social Psychology....Pages 161-187 Love Divine and Love Sublime: The Catholic Marriage Advisory Council, the Marriage Guidance Movement and the State....Pages 188-224 Nova 1965–1970: Love, Masculinity and Feminism, but Not as We Know It....Pages 225-244 Afterword....Pages 245-253 Back Matter....Pages 253-260 The new histories of love and romance within this edited collection illustrate changes (and indeed continuities) in understandings of affection, intimacy and sex from the First World War until the beginning of the Women's Liberation movement. Both established and emerging scholars contribute to understandings about the power, knowledge and pleasure of love and romance within twentieth century Britain. Together, the essays in Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970 problematize notions of a 'golden age' of romance in the 1950s, and received periodisations that plot a rapid 'rise' and 'fall' of modern love. They expand our notions of what was modern about romantic love, and reveal the complex sources, spaces and times in which love was made in twentieth-century Britain The New Histories Of Love And Romance Offered Within This Edited Collection Illustrate The Many Changes, But Also The Surprising Continuities In Understandings Of Love, Romance, Affection, Intimacy And Sex From The First World War Until The Beginning Of The Women's Liberation Movement. Edited By Alana Harris, Timothy Willem Jones.