Prescription for Heterosexuality

Sexual Citizenship in the Cold War Era

Carolyn Herbst Lewis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2010 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-3425-1 (ISBN)

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Prescription for Heterosexuality: Sexual Citizenship in the Cold War Era

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.

Carolyn Herbst Lewis is assistant professor of history at Grinnell College.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.10.2010
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8078-3425-4 / 0807834254
ISBN-13	978-0-8078-3425-1 / 9780807834251
Zustand	Neuware