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Making Modern Love: Sexual Narratives and Identities in Interwar Britain

by Lisa Z. Sigel
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781439908044
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Temple University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Temple University Press
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  • Pages: 258
  • Original Price: USD 81.5
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 477 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies

After the Great War, British men and women grappled with their ignorance about sexuality and desire. Seeking advice and information from doctors, magazines, and each other, they wrote tens of thousands of letters about themselves as sexual subjects. In these letters, they disclosed their uncertainties, their behaviors, and the role of sexuality in their lives. Their fascinating narratives tell how people sought to unleash their imaginations and fashion new identities.

Making Modern Love 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. From longings for transcendent marital union to fantasies of fetish-wear, cross-dressing, and whipping, men and women revealed a surprising range of desires and behaviors (queer and otherwise) that have been largely disregarded until now.

Lisa Sigel mines these provocative narratives to understand how they contributed to new subjectivities and the development of modern sexualities.

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.

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