How long does it take to read Intimate Matters?
John D'Emilio, Estelle B. Freedman
Intimate Matters by John D'Emilio, Estelle B. Freedman takes about 8 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 22 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1988. 456 pages, about 125,400 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman describe the different sexual worlds of plantation slaves, European immigrants, and the urban middle class, and how sexual matters moved from the privacy of the bedroom to its commercial exploitation and its entry into mass culture. The authors shed light on the complex nature of race, gender, and class inequality. They discuss such issues as white slavery and lynching, how sex has served as a symbol for a wide range of social problems, and how conflicts over sexuality have sometimes shaped the political and cultural contours of an era. D'Emilio and Freedman have drawn on court records, diaries, letters, and popular art and culture to provide both a scholarly interpretation of the history of sexuality and a compelling narrative of the lives of anonymous Americans.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Sex customs, History, Seksualiteit, Sex customs -- United States -- History, Histoire, Sexualverhalten
