Article ID: CBB785649083

Science, Sexual Difference and the Making of Modern Marriage in American Sex Advice, 1920–40 (2023)

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This article considers discussions of sexual difference in a range of popular prescriptive texts published between 1920 and 1940 in order to explore the relationship between science and American marital advice literature. It demonstrates the particular role science played in shaping, legitimising and enforcing changing discussions about what ‘good sex’ should look like in contemporary advice – supporting a hierarchy of sexual activities and desires that privileged a particular version of marital heterosexual expression. Through this, it also interrogates the ‘popular’ version of sexual science being consumed by the American public at this time. In addition to adding new perspectives to our understanding of contemporary advice and its relationship with science and medicine, it will also act as a provocation for further research into the ways the public engaged with sexual science in early twentieth-century America.

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Authors & Contributors
Chiang, Howard Hsueh-Hao
Boddice, Rob
Bunzl, Matti
Carstens, Lisa
Cuomu, Mingji
Fausto-Sterling, Anne
Journals
Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity
Classical World
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Gender and History
History of Science
History of the Human Sciences
Publishers
Princeton University
New York University
Ashgate Publishing
Basic Books
Harvard University Press
Transcript
Concepts
Sexuality
Sex differences
Science and gender
Medicine and gender
Sexology
Human body
People
Morgan, Thomas Hunt
Bordeu, Théophile de
Diderot, Denis
Krafft-Ebing, Richard von
Riddle, Oscar
Weininger, Otto
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Ancient
20th century, late
Places
China
United States
Great Britain
Rome (Italy)
Tibet
Austria
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