Confined to the drawing room -- Dancing fury -- To pay or be paid for? -- Going to work : manners at work -- Developments in courting regimes -- The lust balance of sex and love since the sexual revolution : fuck romance! -- International comparisons, theoretical interpretations, and regularities in processes of emanicipation and integration
Summary
Sex and Manners is dazzling book that examines changes in American, Dutch, English and German manners books regarding the changing relationship between men and women. It examines the disappearance of rules for chaperonage and the rise of new codes for public transport, public dances, courting, dates and the work place
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and (pages 165-176) and indexes
