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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... chapters I consider sexual behaviour in nineteenth- I century England and Wales . In this chapter 1 examine broad pat- terns in time and space : the most widespread shifts and stabilities in heterosexual marital and extra - marital ...
... chapters I consider sexual behaviour in nineteenth- I century England and Wales . In this chapter 1 examine broad pat- terns in time and space : the most widespread shifts and stabilities in heterosexual marital and extra - marital ...
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... chapters . There is a possibility of more serious distortion in Chapter 4. In attending to affirmative remarks about women's sexual response , for example ( and certainly before applauding them in reflex fashion ) , one must never ...
... chapters . There is a possibility of more serious distortion in Chapter 4. In attending to affirmative remarks about women's sexual response , for example ( and certainly before applauding them in reflex fashion ) , one must never ...
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... chapter is about ' codes ' , that is , about 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 ...
... chapter is about ' codes ' , that is , about 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 ...
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SEX IN THE SOCIETY | 37 |
CODES AND CLASSES | 105 |
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE | 175 |
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