From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-century America Summary
Beth L. Bailey

From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-century America Summary

From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America is a history of male-female 'courtship' or the system by which American males and females engaged in and initiated sexual and social intimacy prior to marriage from 1900 to 1988. Beth Bailey, a social and cultural historian at Temple University, argues that the system of American courtship has changed dramatically over the past eighty years due to economic, social, and cultural forces. At...

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