Bodies, Love, and Faith in the First World War Dardanella and Peter /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Christie, Nancy (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Gauvreau, Michael (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Genders and Sexualities in History
• Θέματα: Civilization-History.; Social history.; Europe-History-1492-.; Gender identity.; Cultural History.; Social History.; History of Modern Europe.; Gender and Sexuality.

This book explores the courtship and marriage of Gwyneth Murray, an English woman, and a Canadian, Harry Logan, who wrote in the personae of their vagina (Dardanella) and penis (Peter) during World War I.  Through an analysis of their extensive daily correspondence over nearly a decade, it uncovers...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. Introduction:  Making Love Sexual in the Edwardian Age
• Chapter 2:  The Emotional Body:  Religion and Male Friendship at Oxford
• Chapter 3: "Phallic Thumbs":  Conceiving a New Eden
• Chapter 3: The Carnal Brother Body: Emotion, Interiority, and the Epistolary "Talking Cure"
• Chapter 5:  The Gendered Body:  Marriage and a "home of my own"
• Chapter 6: Purring Vaginas and Waggling Penises:  Sexting World War I
• Chapter 7:  The Maternal Body:  Pregnancy, Child-Rearing, and Birth Control
• Chapter 8. Conclusion: "Are the Thumbs Still Wagging?": Gwyneth, Harry and the Psyche of an Age
• Bibliography
• Index.