Tuesday, May 21, 2013

gender relations in the early 20th c.

"Girls fell in love earlier and more often than the boys, not because they were more fickle, but because there was great pressure to fall in love with a man, whether or not it was the man. They wrote love notes, while the boys sent those obscene, sadistic comic valentines that had become so popular since the end of the nineteenth century. Girls were much more practiced in love, if only in their imaginations."

- John R. Gillis, For Better, For Worse: British marriages, 1600-present

all i want.



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