“Dear Lord, If It Were Up to Me, It Wouldn’t Happen”: Marital Duty, Consent, and Catholic Women’s Sexual Agency in 1950s French-Speaking Belgium
This article examines the “grey areas” of sexual consent in Belgian Catholic couples before the “sexual revolution”, based on family pastoral care manuals and on a corpus of letters exchanged between Catholic marriage counselors and readers of the Catholic magazine “Feuilles Familiales”. I show, on the one hand, how the emergence of a sexual ideal of “physical harmony” in the early 1950s led moralists to challenge the traditional notion of “marital duty” in favor of a valorization of the reciprocity of desire and pleasure between spouses. The analysis of couples’ letters shows, however, that t... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2024 |
Schlagwörter: | Histoire contemporaine [depuis 1914] / Religions chrétiennes / Sociologie de la famille / sexualité / catholicisme / consentement / femmes |
Sprache: | Französisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27379229 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/373699 |