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2437216Seeking Love in Modern Britainhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/seeking-love-in-modern-britain-9781350095939/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3724188/e4da5426-1d92-473f-b2ef-ef564917e255.jpg?v=63838578212357000018272031MXNBloomsbury PublishingInStock/Ebooks/<p><em>Seeking Love in Modern Britain</em> charts the emergence of the modern British single through an account of the dating industry that sprang up to serve men and women. It shows how amid a period of unprecedented sexual and social change the single became a key unisex identity and lifestyle.</p><p>From around 1970, a growing, cottage-style matchmaking industry in Britain was offering the romantically solo a choice between computer dating firms, such as Dateline or Compudate, introduction agencies and the lonely hearts pages of <em>Private Eye</em>, <em>Time Out</em> and others. Zoe Strimpel reveals how this rapidly expanding landscape of services was catering to a new breed of single people, and how by the late 1990s singleness had become the culturally mainstream, wholly expected part of the romantic life cycle that it is today.</p><p>Refuting the widespread idea that the Internet invented modern dating, this book uses an eclectic and engaging range of first-person accounts and snapshots from the time to show that the story of contemporary romance, mediated courtship and singleness began in a time long before Tinder.</p>...2373506Seeking Love in Modern Britain18272031https://www.gandhi.com.mx/seeking-love-in-modern-britain-9781350095939/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3724188/e4da5426-1d92-473f-b2ef-ef564917e255.jpg?v=638385782123570000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20209781350095939_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_<p><em>Seeking Love in Modern Britain</em> charts the emergence of the modern British single through an account of the dating industry that sprang up to serve men and women. It shows how amid a period of unprecedented sexual and social change the single became a key unisex identity and lifestyle.</p><p>From around 1970, a growing, cottage-style matchmaking industry in Britain was offering the romantically solo a choice between computer dating firms, such as Dateline or Compudate, introduction agencies and the lonely hearts pages of <em>Private Eye</em>, <em>Time Out</em> and others. Zoe Strimpel reveals how this rapidly expanding landscape of services was catering to a new breed of single people, and how by the late 1990s singleness had become the culturally mainstream, wholly expected part of the romantic life cycle that it is today.</p><p>Refuting the widespread idea that the Internet invented modern dating, this book uses an eclectic and engaging range of first-person accounts and snapshots from the time to show that the story of contemporary romance, mediated courtship and singleness began in a time long before Tinder.</p>(*_*)9781350095939_<p><em>Seeking Love in Modern Britain</em> charts the emergence of the modern British single through an account of the dating industry that sprang up to serve men and women. It shows how amid a period of unprecedented sexual and social change the single became a key unisex identity and lifestyle.</p><p>From around 1970, a growing, cottage-style matchmaking industry in Britain was offering the romantically solo a choice between computer dating firms, such as Dateline or Compudate, introduction agencies and the lonely hearts pages of <em>Private Eye</em>, <em>Time Out</em> and others. Zoe Strimpel reveals how this rapidly expanding landscape of services was catering to a new breed of single people, and how by the late 1990s singleness had become the culturally mainstream, wholly expected part of the romantic life cycle that it is today.</p><p>Refuting the widespread idea that the Internet invented modern dating, this book uses an eclectic and engaging range of first-person accounts and snapshots from the time to show that the story of contemporary romance, mediated courtship and singleness began in a time long before Tinder.</p>...9781350095939_Bloomsbury Publishinglibro_electonico_7b5f0b65-4f89-3581-9d46-d2de43a7b28c_9781350095939;9781350095939_9781350095939Dr ZoeInglésMéxico2020-03-05T00:00:00+00:00Bloomsbury Publishing