{"id":65874,"date":"2016-02-10T09:07:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=65874"},"modified":"2015-04-08T00:47:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T05:47:24","slug":"from-our-archives-valentines-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2016\/02\/10\/from-our-archives-valentines-day-6\/","title":{"rendered":"From Our Archives: Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2016\/02\/3.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-65876\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2016\/02\/3-500x135.png\" alt=\"3\" width=\"500\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2016\/02\/3-500x135.png 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2016\/02\/3-1024x277.png 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2016\/02\/3.png 1111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Cultural and Historical Variation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/02\/14\/a-vinegar-tradition-happy-valentines-day-i-hate-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cVinegar Valentines\u201d: Happy Valentine\u2019s Day, I Hate You<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/02\/12\/is-there-a-globalization-of-commodified-love\/\" target=\"_blank\">Love, Business, and Valentine&#8217;s Day in Pakistan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/12\/celebrating-valentines-day-in-japan\/\" target=\"_self\">Valentine\u2019s Day in Japan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/02\/15\/before-love-puritan-beliefs-about-marriage-and-procreation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Before Love: Puritan Beliefs about Sex and Marriage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/02\/10\/valentines-day-as-youth-rebellion-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\">Valentine&#8217;s Day as Youth Rebellion in India<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Race\/Ethnicity<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/02\/13\/my-cheap-scottish-valentine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Racist Vintage Valentine\u2019s Day Cards: My Cheap Scottish Valentine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/02\/12\/vintage-valentines-punning-on-american-indians\/\" target=\"_self\">Racist Vintage Valentine\u2019s Day Cards: American Indians<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/02\/14\/more-vintage-valentine-cards-with-racial-caricatures\/\" target=\"_self\">Racist Vintage Valentine\u2019s Say Cards: Asians and Asian Americans<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/02\/14\/racist-vintage-valentines-day-cards-africans-and-african-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\">Racist Vintage Valentine\u2019s Day Cards: Africans and African Americans<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Heteronormativity<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/14\/valentines-day-and-heteronormativity\/\" target=\"_self\">Have a Very Straight Valentine\u2019s Day<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Compulsory Coupling:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/02\/13\/fit-in-by-finding-someone-or-compulsory-coupling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fit in by Finding Someone, says Frito Lay<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/02\/11\/the-social-construction-of-solitude\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Social Construction of Solitude<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gender<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/02\/12\/the-feminization-of-love\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Feminization of Love and Masculinization of Sex<\/a>\u00a0(pictured)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/02\/13\/shifting-cultural-sensibilities-and\/\" target=\"_self\">Violent Metaphors in Vintage Valentine\u2019s Day Cards<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/02\/13\/valentines-day-gifts\/\" target=\"_self\">Do Men Want Flowers?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/13\/vday-an-opportunity-to-remind-us-that-we-are-opposite-sexes\/\" target=\"_self\">The Sexes are \u201cOpposite\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/01\/steak-and-a-blow-job-day\/\" target=\"_self\">Steak and a BlowJob Day<\/a>\u00a0(for men)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/14\/pretty-girls-get-lots-of-stuff\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pretty Girls Get Lots of Stuff<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Marketing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/02\/14\/buy-flowers-or-youre-a-dipshit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Buy Flowers or You&#8217;re a Dipshit, says FTD Florists<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/14\/apple-reminds-us-that-love-is-measured-in-dollars\/\" target=\"_self\">Measuring Love with $$$<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/13\/men-are-loved-women-are-property\/\" target=\"_self\">Men are Loved and Women are Property<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/13\/valentines-day-as-sex-for-gifts-exchange\/\" target=\"_blank\">Valentine\u2019s Day as Sex-For-Gift Exchange<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Consumption:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/13\/do-you-know-that-valentines-day-is-coming\/\" target=\"_blank\">Do You Know that Valentine\u2019s Day is Coming? Do you? DO YOU!?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/02\/14\/the-sweet-smell-of-environmental-degredation\/\" target=\"_self\">The Sweet Smell of Environmental Degradation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/02\/14\/happy-valentines-day\/\" target=\"_self\">Love for Sale with Dogboy and Mr. Dan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cultural and Historical Variation \u201cVinegar Valentines\u201d: Happy Valentine\u2019s Day, I Hate You Love, Business, and Valentine&#8217;s Day in Pakistan Valentine\u2019s Day in Japan Before Love: Puritan Beliefs about Sex and Marriage Valentine&#8217;s Day as Youth Rebellion in India Race\/Ethnicity Racist Vintage Valentine\u2019s Day Cards: My Cheap Scottish Valentine Racist Vintage Valentine\u2019s Day Cards: American Indians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":65877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-65874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-holidays"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2016\/02\/4.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65878,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65874\/revisions\/65878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}