The Making of Victorian SexualityOxford University Press, 1994 - 338 من الصفحات BL A challenging examination of Victorian sexuality. BL Confronts one of the most persistent historical cliches of modern times. BL Draws on a wealth of documentary evidence including medical, scientific, religious, demographic, and literary texts. At a time when AIDS, abortion, and sexual abuse have become favourite topics of media and academic debate, it is no surprise that the Victorians, with their strong associations with prudery and puritanism, are frequently held up as an example of a sexual culture far different from our own. Yet whatdid the Victorians really think about sex? What was the reality of their sexual behaviour, and what wider concepts - biological, political, religious - influenced their sexual moralism? The Making of Victorian Sexuality directly confronts one of the most persistent cliches of modern times. Michael Mason shows how much of our perception of nineteenth-century sexual culture is simply wrong. Far from being a license for prudery and hypocrisy, Victorian sexual moralism is shown to bein reality a code intelligently embraced by wealthy and poor alike as part of a humane and progressive vision of society's future. The `average' Victorian man was not necessarily the church-going, tyrannical, secretly lecherous, bourgeois `paterfamilias' of modern-day legend, but often an agnostic,radical-minded, sexually continent citizen, with a deliberately restricted number of children. Persuasively arguing that there is much in Victorian sexual moralism to teach the complacently libertarian twentieth century, this lively and fascinating study offers a radical challenge to one of the most persistent myths of our age. |
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... attitudes - but it is usually an uncertain step from a particular surviv- ing statement of an attitude to worthwhile generalizations about atti- tudes at large . And the sexual culture of a society is a matter of practices and attitudes ...
... attitudes - but it is usually an uncertain step from a particular surviv- ing statement of an attitude to worthwhile generalizations about atti- tudes at large . And the sexual culture of a society is a matter of practices and attitudes ...
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... attitudes , and one test which my argument must meet is whether the writers and utterances which I connect under head- ings such as these can be so connected . Here at least the relevance of such labels is obvious enough . Place tells ...
... attitudes , and one test which my argument must meet is whether the writers and utterances which I connect under head- ings such as these can be so connected . Here at least the relevance of such labels is obvious enough . Place tells ...
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... attitude at this level , but Acton's account has the merit that it involves a claim about a recent and continuing shift in ... attitudes has contributed to a quite separate development in middle - class sexual behaviour , the growth of ...
... attitude at this level , but Acton's account has the merit that it involves a claim about a recent and continuing shift in ... attitudes has contributed to a quite separate development in middle - class sexual behaviour , the growth of ...
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SEX IN THE SOCIETY | 37 |
CODES AND CLASSES | 105 |
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE | 175 |
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