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Sex and Manners: Female Emancipation in the West, 1890-2000
Paperback
Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
General Gender StudiesGeneral World HistoryWomen's Studies
ISBN13: 9781412929189
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: Sep 1 2004
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.25 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Wouters has written a book both broad in scope and deep in analytic reach. Exploring changes in courtship norms over the last century in English, Dutch, German and American books of manners, he discovers changes which confirm the theory of informalization. Relations between the sexes are, he shows us, less regulated from outside and more from inside. This change calls - paradoxically - for both an emancipation of emotion and an ever sharper cultural eye on ways of managing emotion. The book carries Elias′s classic, The Civilizing Process one giant step further. An important contribution and a fascinating read′ - Arlie Russell Hochschild, University of California
This dazzling book examines changes in American, Dutch, English and German manners, regarding the changing relationships between men and women. From the disappearance of rules for chaperonage and the rise of new codes for courting, dates, public dances and the work place, it shows how women have become their own chaperone by gaining the rights to pay for themselves, to have a job and be a sexual subject.
This original and thought-provoking book:
- provides empirical evidence showing how younger generations removed their courting from under parental wings and how the balance of power between the sexes shifted in women′s favour;
- monitors changes in codes regarding sexuality by focusing on the balance between the desire for sexual gratification and the longing for enduring intimacy;
- documents the balance of controls over sexual impulses and emotions shifting from external social controls to internal ones;
- compares nationally different trends, particularly between the USA and Europe, focusing on the American dating system and its resulting double standards;
- argues that the initial greater freedom of American women has turned into a deficit.
Cas Wouters teaches Sociology at Utrecht University
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