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Prescription for Heterosexuality: Sexual Citizenship in the Cold War Era

Prescription for Heterosexuality: Sexual Citizenship in the Cold War Era

Lewis, Carolyn Herbst

Paperback

Medical Reference20th Century United States HistorySexuality

ISBN10: 1469609827
ISBN13: 9781469609829
Publisher: Univ Of North Carolina Pr
Published: Aug 1 2013
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
In Prescription for Heterosexuality, Carolyn Herbst Lewis explores how medical practitioners, especially family physicians, situated themselves as the guardians of Americans' sexual well-being during the early Cold War years. She argues that many doctors believed that a satisfying sexual relationship with very specific attributes and boundaries was the foundation of a successful marriage, a source of happiness in the American family, and a crucial building block of a secure nation. Drawing on hundreds of articles and editorials in both medical journals and popular and professional literature, Lewis traces how medical professionals affirmed certain heterosexual desires and acts while labeling others as unhealthy or deviant.

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