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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... observers does sound excessive , especially when it is not echoed by other observers of the same social scene , and in the light of the many reports of the increasing decorousness and refinement noticeable among prostitutes ...
... observers does sound excessive , especially when it is not echoed by other observers of the same social scene , and in the light of the many reports of the increasing decorousness and refinement noticeable among prostitutes ...
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... observers is that English wives , by comparison with their continental peers , lost freedom when they married . They had more before marriage , and less afterwards.22 It was generally agreed that the foundation of most English marriages ...
... observers is that English wives , by comparison with their continental peers , lost freedom when they married . They had more before marriage , and less afterwards.22 It was generally agreed that the foundation of most English marriages ...
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... observers were generally the victims of a deliberate deception - of a ' role enactment ' performed by the subject , and dropped the moment the observer's back was turned.119 Working - class individuals were certainly conscious enough of ...
... observers were generally the victims of a deliberate deception - of a ' role enactment ' performed by the subject , and dropped the moment the observer's back was turned.119 Working - class individuals were certainly conscious enough of ...
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SEX IN THE SOCIETY | 37 |
CODES AND CLASSES | 105 |
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE | 175 |
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