Romantic Longings

By Steven Seidman

Book Overview

In Romantic Longings Steven Seidman offers an original perspective on the origins and current meaning of the American intimate culture. Drawing on a wide range of sources--sex surveys, advice literature, autobiographies, novels--he charts a change from a Victorian spiritual ideal to efforts by current reformers to sexualize love. Stressing that contemporary notions of intimacy are grounded in twentieth-century historical developments, he observes the birth of a culture of eroticism in the post-World War II years--a culture where sexuality is conceived as both a sphere of love and intimacy and a domain of pleasure and self-expression.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415908280
• ISBN13: 9780415908283
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"