Ruskin, John
Russell, Rosalind
Ryder, Sir Dudley
‘safe sex’
Sanskrit literature
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Scandinavia
‘science’, popular
Scott, Sir Walter
Second World War
secrecy
secularism
seduction, arts of
self-esteem
‘selfish gene’ metaphor
Seneca
Sex and the City (TV series)
sexiness and glamour
sexual desire and sexuality
in adolescence
advice industry
arrival of children and
in belle époque France
as ‘casual’
celibacy as transgressive
in childhood
contemporary lack of intimacy
in contemporary literature
courtly love and
danger and
disgust with the carnal
in early twentieth-century USA
excess of choice and
Freud on
intensity of
irrationality of
marriage and
media commodification of
mid-twentieth century
orgasm
the physical act
in Plato
post-Great War
prohibitions and rules
repressive mores and
rituals of
‘self-esteem’ and
in Victorian era
women and
women and modernity
words used for the sexual act
see also passion; the erotic
sexual hypocrisy see hypocrisy/double standards, sexual
sexual revolution
backlashes against
empowerment
fidelity and
paradoxes of
sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
Shakespeare, William
Hamlet
Henry IV Part 1
King Lear
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
The Winter’s Tale
As You Like It
Shelly, Percy Bysshe
Shklar, Judith
siblings
displacement of first-born
jealousy and
in myth and literature
ties of love
‘Silver Ring Thing’
Sinatra, Frank
Slumdog Millionaire (film)
Smith, Adam, The Wealth of Nations
Smith, Zadie
The Smiths
social class
aristocracy
in France
Great War as agent for change
historical development of
in literature
marriage and
motherhood and
in USA
Victorian era and
social revolution (late 1960s)
socialism
Solon
songs
Spears, Britney
speed-dating
Spencer, Herbert
St Jerome
Stack, Mollie
star-crossed lovers
Stardust (film)
Stendhal
The Red and the Black
The Stepford Wives (film)
Sterne, Laurence
Stoller, Robert
Stone, Lawrence
Stopes, Marie, Married Love
storytelling
Strachey, Lytton
Strindberg, August, Dance of Death
suburbanization
suicide
in literature
superstition
syphilis
Tanner, Tony
Teddlie, Delilah Mae
teenagers
see also adolescence
television
templates of love
Temple, Sir William
Terry, John
Thanatos
Thatcher, Margaret
Thorn, Tracey, Love and Its Opposite
Thurman, Judith
Todd, Janet
Tolstoy, Leo
Anna Karenina
traditional cultures
transgression
celibacy as
first love and
Trobriand Islanders
‘True Love Waits’ movement
Turgenev, Ivan, First Love
twin souls concept
United States of America (USA)
American gothic literature
cohabitation in
‘common law’ marriages
Declaration of Independence
declining birth rate (1880-1920)
disapproval of infidelity in
divorce in
infidelity in
market turnover culture in
marriage in 1950s
marriage in nineteenth-century
nineteenth-century public morality
popularity of marriage
religious evangelicism
sexual double standards in
sexuality in early twentieth-century
spending on weddings
suburbanization in
Updike, John
Valium
Viagra
Victoria, Queen
Victorian era
Bohemian lifestyles
education and childhood
families
marriage in
mothers in
romantic novels
sense of decline in late century
sexual double standards in
sexuality in
violence
Virgil
virginity
early Christianity and
virtual networks
Voltaire
Walpole, Horace
Walpole, Robert
Wandervogel (youth movement)
Warner, Marina, Alone of All Her Sex
Webb, Beatrice
Weber, Max
Weekley, Frieda (von Richthofen)
Weimar Germany
welfare and health systems
Wells, H.G.
Ann Veronica
West, Rebecca
West Side Story (musical)
Whately, William
White, Edmund
A Boy’s Own Story
My Lives
Wilde, Oscar
‘Ballad of Reading Gaol’
A Woman of No Importance
Wilmot, John (2nd Earl of Rochester)
Wilson, Frances
Winehouse, Amy
Winfrey, Oprah
Winnicott, Donald
on adolescence
Wollstonecraft, Mary
women
adultery as deadly
biological clock
Civil War and
contemporary needs
disgust with the carnal
equality and see equality issues
father-daughter relationship
friendship and
Great War and
growing up
in jazz age
libertine tradition
male use of pornography and
no legal status in marriage
as ‘passive’/’masochistic’
popular romances and
‘psychical impotence’ concept
rights campaigns in Victorian era
‘self-esteem’ and
sexual anxiety
sexual desire and
sexual desire and modernity
sexual empowerment and
suburban life
traditional psychosexual posture
violence against
see also mothers
Women’s Freedom League
Women’s League of Health and Beauty
&
nbsp; women’s movement and feminism
Woods, Tiger
Woolf, Virginia
A Room of One’s Own
Wordsworth, Dorothy
Wordsworth, William
‘Tintern Abbey’
workplace
1980s backlash against single women
Great War as agent for change
mid-twentieth century
mobile job market and
in Second World War
women and
Wyatt, Jane
Yates, Richard, Revolutionary Road
yearning/longing
for early/shaping attachments
Yeats, W.B.
Young, Robert
Copyright Acknowledgements
Extracts from Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Vol. 2: The New Kingdom (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976). Reproduced by permission of the University of California Press. Extracts from Sigmund Freud, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, 24 volumes (London: The Hogarth Press, 1986). Reproduced by arrangement with Paterson Marsh Ltd. Extracts from Stanley Cavell, “Knowledge as Transgression: Mostly a Reading of It Happened One Night,” Daedalus, 109:3 (Spring 1980), pp. 147–76. © 1980 by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Extract from “An Arundel Tomb” copyright © the Estate of Philip Larkin, reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd. Extract from Aeschylus, The Oresteia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989). Reprinted by permission of the University of Chicago Press. Extract from The Child in Time by Ian McEwan. Copyright © 1987 by Ian McEwan. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of the author. Extract from Saturday by Ian McEwan reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.
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