{"product_id":"9781487521141","title":"Sex and the Married Girl","description":"Author: Heather Stanley\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781487521141\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Nov 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 224 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book examines how embodied, heterosexual, married sexual experiences were constructed for, and by, Canadian women in the postwar era.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSex  who was having it, who shouldn't have it, and who was supposed to be having it but wasn't  was a major concern to social authorities in the immediate postwar era. Though they are often remembered with nostalgia as a sexually simpler time, the 1950s and early 1960s were incredibly sexually productive years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSex and the Married Girl\u003c\/i\u003e examines how two interrelated and dominant groups in Canada  medical professionals and church leaders  used married heterosexual female sexuality as a lever to rebuild the Canadian family and the state itself. Using embodied historical methodologies, the book examines not only discourses around sex but also how those discourses could influence the actual experience of sex for married women. Heather Stanley draws upon extensive oral life histories of women who lived, married, and had sex during this liminal social period to demonstrate that this was a time of simultaneous sexual and gender quiescence and change.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919523823774,"sku":"ING-9781487521141","price":49.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781487521141.jpg?v=1782813485","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781487521141","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}