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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الصفحة 38
... behaviour which I offer here — and cer- tainly not the kind of quantitative material which appears in this chapter , cursory though it is - but the attempt to survey this evi- dence needs no apology . The facts are intriguing in ...
... behaviour which I offer here — and cer- tainly not the kind of quantitative material which appears in this chapter , cursory though it is - but the attempt to survey this evi- dence needs no apology . The facts are intriguing in ...
الصفحة 39
... behaviour and sexual beliefs . To start with , it exposes the fact that behaviour ' is a very broad notion , and includes some ele- ments which are virtually equivalent to beliefs . Certain aspects of demeanour are in effect expressions ...
... behaviour and sexual beliefs . To start with , it exposes the fact that behaviour ' is a very broad notion , and includes some ele- ments which are virtually equivalent to beliefs . Certain aspects of demeanour are in effect expressions ...
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... behaviour in a sense closely allied to beliefs about sexual morality . There are two specific issues about the consistency of nineteenth- century moralism which I therefore postpone discussing until that point , because they have to do ...
... behaviour in a sense closely allied to beliefs about sexual morality . There are two specific issues about the consistency of nineteenth- century moralism which I therefore postpone discussing until that point , because they have to do ...
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SEX IN THE SOCIETY | 37 |
CODES AND CLASSES | 105 |
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE | 175 |
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