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From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America

From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America

Bailey, Beth L.

Paperback

Anthropology20th Century United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0801839351
ISBN13: 9780801839351
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Aug 1 1989
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.92 Depth: 8.94
Language: English

From gentleman callers to big men on campus, from Coke dates to parking, From Front Porch to Back Seat is the vivid history of dating in America. In chronicling a dramatic shift in patterns of courtship between the 1920s and the 1960s, Beth Bailey offers a provocative view of how we sought out mates-and of what accounted for our behavior. More than a quarter-century has passed since the dating system Bailey describes here lost its coherence and dominance. Yet the legacy of the system remains a strong part of our culture's attempt to define female and male roles alike.

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