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Title:
Prescription for heterosexuality : sexual citizenship in the cold war era
Author:
Lewis, Carolyn Herbst.
ISBN:
9780807899540

9781469606385
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 228 pages)
Abstract:
In this lively and engaging work, Carolyn Lewis explores how medical practitioners, especially family physicians, situated themselves as the guardians of Americans' sexual well-being during the early years of the Cold War. She argues that many doctors believed that a satisfying sexual relationship with very specific attributes and boundaries was the foundation of a successful marriage, a fundamental source of happiness in the American family, and a crucial building block of a secure nation. Drawing on hundreds of articles and editorials in medical journals as well as other popular and professi.
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