"Based on impressive research in a wide variety of sources,
including popular literature, advertisements, true confession and
physique magazines, advice columns, sex surveys, vice investigation
reports, and personal letters, "The First Sexual Revolution" offers
a provocative interpretation of the impact of the sexual revolution
on men. White's boldly-stated criticism of sexual liberalism is
sure to arouse controversy. Yet his view of men confused by new
expectations of attractiveness and sexiness, threatened by women's
demands for sexual satisfaction, yet essentially still in control,
is compelling."
--Leila J. Rupp Ohio State University, Co-author of "Survival in
the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the
1960s,"
In the early 1900s, a sexual revolution took place that was to
define social relations between the sexes in America for
generations. As Victorian values gradually faded, and a
commercialized consumer culture emerged, the female figure of the
flapper came to embody early-twentieth century femininity.
Simultaneously, masculine ideals were also undergoing radical
change. Who then was this New Man to accompany the New Woman? Who
was the flapper's boyfriend?
In this remarkable book, Kevin White draws on a vast array of
sources to examine the ideology--spread through movies,
advertisements, sex confession magazines, social hygienists, sex
manuals, and Freudian popularizers --that has defined modern
American manhood. Examining attitudes toward masturbation,
homosexuality, violence against women, feminism, free love, and the
emerging dating system, "The First Sexual Revolution" shows how
American men in the Jazz Age were subjected to a barrage
ofinformation and advice about their sexuality that stressed not
character but personality and sex appeal. Repression was out;
sexual expression--performance--was in.
This New Man was more egalitarian and more sexual than the
Victorian patriarch. But the diffusion to the middle class of the
Victorian underworld ethos of primitivism and violence against
women, and the flight from commitment to relationships, heralded
instability and tensions that continues to define American sexual
relations. To illustrate this point, Dr. White takes a close
look--through letters and diaries--at the successes and failures of
nine marriages involving actively feminist women, demonstrating the
pressures that this revolution in values caused. Dr. White
concludes that the return to primitivism characterized by the men's
movement marks the most recent aftershock of the revolution that
has shaped us all.
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