Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture (Gender and American Culture)

Devlin argues that postwar culture fostered a father-daughter relationship characterized by forms of psychological intimacy. The pervasiveness of depictions of father-adolescent daughter eroticism on all levels of culture raises questions about the extent of girls' independence and the character of fatherhood during the 40s and 50s.Rachel Devlin is the author of 'Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture (Gender and American Culture)', published 2005 under ISBN 9780807829462 and ISBN 0807829463.