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

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

Beth L. Bailey

208 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction gender history sociology informative slow-paced

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From gentleman callers to big men on campus, from Coke dates to "parking," From Front Porch to Back Seat is the vivid history of dating in America. In chronicling a dramatic shift in patterns of courtship between the 1920s and the 1960s, Beth Bail...

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