Making Modern Love: Sexual Narratives and Identities in Interwar Britain

by Lisa Z. Sigel

Overview

After the Great War, British men and women, grappled with their ignorance about sexuality and desire. This book shows how readers embraced popular media - self-help books, fetish magazines, and advice columns - as a source of information about sexuality and a means for telling their own stories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439908051
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	10/12/2012
Series:	Sexuality Studies
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Lisa Z. Sigel is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at DePaul University. She is author of Governing Pleasures: Pornography and Social Change in England, 1815-1914 and the editor of International Exposure: Perspectives on Modern European Pornography.