Love and Romance in Britain, 1918–1970

1. Introduction: Historicizing ‘Modern’ Love and Romance
Timothy Willem Jones, Alana Harris

2. Love and Romance in Interwar British Women’s Autobiography
Barbara Caine

3. The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
Laura King

4. Love, Sex, Work and Friendship: Northern, Working-Class Men and Sexuality in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Helen Smith

5. ‘A Certain Amount of Mush’: Love, Romance, Celluloid and Wax in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Stephen Brooke

6. Love Beyond the Frame: Stories of Maternal Love Outside Marriage in the 1950s and 1960s
April Gallwey

7. Love, Honour and Obey? Romance, Subordination and Marital Subjectivity in Interwar Britain
Timothy Willem Jones

8. Love in Later Life: Old Age, Marriage and Social Research in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
Charlotte Greenhalgh

9. ‘The Love of a Pitiable Dog’: Gregariousness, Reciprocity and Altruism in Early Twentieth-Century British Social Psychology
Gillian Swanson

10. Love Divine and Love Sublime: The Catholic Marriage Advisory Council, the Marriage Guidance Movement and the State
Alana Harris

11. Nova 1965–1970: Love, Masculinity and Feminism, but Not as We Know It
Hera Cook

12. Afterword
Claire Langhamer

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Social History, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Modern History, History of Military, Imperialism and Colonialism