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Loading... From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America (edition 1989)by Beth L. Bailey
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From gentleman callers to big men on campus, from Coke dates to "parking," From Front Porch to Back Seat is the vivid history of dating in America. In chronicling a dramatic shift in patterns of courtship between the 1920s and the 1960s, Beth Bailey offers a provocative view of how we sought out mates-and of what accounted for our behavior. More than a quarter-century has passed since the dating system Bailey describes here lost its coherence and dominance. Yet the legacy of the system remains a strong part of our culture's attempt to define female and male roles alike. No library descriptions found. |
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I am used to the concept that social norms have radically shifted over the past 70 years or so; but this rate of social change is usually presented as being unprecedented. What this book shows is how radically the institution of 'dating', the means by which new families were formed, changed just as much in the preceding 70 years in the US. (