Dating beth l bailey

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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 s and the s, Beth Bailey offers a provocative view of how we sought out mates-and of what accounted for our behavior. More than a quarter-century has passed since the dating system Bailey describes here lost its coherence and dominance. Yet the legacy of the system remains a strong part of our culture's attempt to define female and male roles alike. Whether or not we've come a long way since then, this engaging study of courtship shows that at least half the fun is in reading about getting there.

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To browse Academia. Bailey first became interested in studying courtship attitudes and behavior when, as a college senior, she appeared on a television talk show to defend coed dorms, which were then relatively new and controversial. She was surprised when many people in the audience objected to coed dorms not on moral grounds but out of fear that too much intimacy between young men and women would hasten "the dissolution of the dating system and the death of romance. Paula England. Richard McAnulty. Olanrewaju Alalade.

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Estelle B. Freedman, Beth L. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Dating as Competition by Beth Bailey

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