Marriage isn’t easy for many because there are many problems that come with marriage like communication, cooperation, money, and sex. In T.H. Van De Velde’s Marriage manual, Ideal Marriage, he describes the “New Responsibilities in Males” during the interwar period. Women were more visible in this time period because women were now more involved in the work force. Velde in this excerpt explains the responsibility of men needing to have intercourse with their wives and teaching men that they are educators of sex to their partners. During this time period women were perceived to be a term called “frigid” which meant cold and not sexually responsive to any type of sexual stimuli. Generally married women were called frigid because they not
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During Germany in the 1920s, shortly after the Great War had ended women were working more and showing off a differently style of fashion while minimizing the average family size. A sexual reform had occurred which focused on women to be a part of heterosexual sex and relationships. Atina Grossmann wrote an article on the sexual reform in Germany and how Van de Velde was a source for this sexual reform because his ideas were correct at the time. Grossmann states that “Van de Velde set the tone for other sex manuals […] He warned husbands that continues ‘frigidity’ was dangerous for the marriage […] of course, different types of women and families required different strategies” . These systems of knowledge were linked together throughout history, based on the Freud works, thus influencing Van de Velde and leading to the influence of many marriage manuals on the ideas of Velde. Before this influence the new woman as Grossmann states “was only intellectual with a Marlene Dietrich- style suit and short manish haircut or the young white collar worker in a flapper outfit. She was also the young married factory worker who cooked only one warm meal a day” . The change in women was something that reformers needed to change because of their choices in contraceptives as well as abortions. Women during this time period had a difficult process of living because of all the demeaning and derogatory ideas upon them. Sectors of issuing contraceptives and information on abortion became more accessible to the bourgeoisie class. This was due to women that had a higher paying
During Germany in the 1920s, shortly after the Great War had ended women were working more and showing off a differently style of fashion while minimizing the average family size. A sexual reform had occurred which focused on women to be a part of heterosexual sex and relationships. Atina Grossmann wrote an article on the sexual reform in Germany and how Van de Velde was a source for this sexual reform because his ideas were correct at the time. Grossmann states that “Van de Velde set the tone for other sex manuals […] He warned husbands that continues ‘frigidity’ was dangerous for the marriage […] of course, different types of women and families required different strategies” . These systems of knowledge were linked together throughout history, based on the Freud works, thus influencing Van de Velde and leading to the influence of many marriage manuals on the ideas of Velde. Before this influence the new woman as Grossmann states “was only intellectual with a Marlene Dietrich- style suit and short manish haircut or the young white collar worker in a flapper outfit. She was also the young married factory worker who cooked only one warm meal a day” . The change in women was something that reformers needed to change because of their choices in contraceptives as well as abortions. Women during this time period had a difficult process of living because of all the demeaning and derogatory ideas upon them. Sectors of issuing contraceptives and information on abortion became more accessible to the bourgeoisie class. This was due to women that had a higher paying