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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... early Victorian ' starts to be identified as a period distinguished by moral rigour and severity , from which even ... early part of the reign.18 Annie Winsor Allen's pioneering defence of the Victorians , already cited , takes up the ...
... early Victorian ' starts to be identified as a period distinguished by moral rigour and severity , from which even ... early part of the reign.18 Annie Winsor Allen's pioneering defence of the Victorians , already cited , takes up the ...
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... early lead here . The central trope of the essay ( strangely echoing or foreshadowing several other texts of the period , but especially Gosse's Father and Son ) is that the pre- and post - Victorian divisions of the century which she ...
... early lead here . The central trope of the essay ( strangely echoing or foreshadowing several other texts of the period , but especially Gosse's Father and Son ) is that the pre- and post - Victorian divisions of the century which she ...
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... early mar- ital sexual activity : but if women of the late 1860s and thereafter had better sex - lives they also gave birth more frequently . To our minds this might imply that in the early phase of the fertil- ity decline women had ...
... early mar- ital sexual activity : but if women of the late 1860s and thereafter had better sex - lives they also gave birth more frequently . To our minds this might imply that in the early phase of the fertil- ity decline women had ...
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SEX IN THE SOCIETY | 37 |
CODES AND CLASSES | 105 |
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE | 175 |
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