Education for social hygiene -- Sex radical challenges to marriage -- Companionate marriage -- Modern marriage: three visions -- Sexual advice for modern marriage -- Conclusion
Summary
Simmons describes the emergence of the 'companionate marriage', which incorporated birth control and an active sexual role for wives. While displacing Victorian marriage and femininity, the companionate ideal prevailed by the 1940s and set the standard against which second-wave feminists rebelled
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-294) and index
