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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... wish the ' new hedonists ' to practise it : bird - song and blossom represent sexuality unabashed . The feminist Mona Caird took almost as long a view as Allen but in her version there is at least , at the dawn of history , a time when ...
... wish the ' new hedonists ' to practise it : bird - song and blossom represent sexuality unabashed . The feminist Mona Caird took almost as long a view as Allen but in her version there is at least , at the dawn of history , a time when ...
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... wish to focus on working - class needs , but the stress on a restricted slum component in urban accommodation is less hon- ourable when it is helped along by imagery of the criminal poor ' shrunk like snails deeper into their shells'.14 ...
... wish to focus on working - class needs , but the stress on a restricted slum component in urban accommodation is less hon- ourable when it is helped along by imagery of the criminal poor ' shrunk like snails deeper into their shells'.14 ...
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... wish to deny that either utilitar- ianism or Evangelicalism could have been influences of this sort in the first half of the century . He agrees that the two movements col- laborated , ideologically , but to a very different effect ...
... wish to deny that either utilitar- ianism or Evangelicalism could have been influences of this sort in the first half of the century . He agrees that the two movements col- laborated , ideologically , but to a very different effect ...
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SEX IN THE SOCIETY | 37 |
CODES AND CLASSES | 105 |
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE | 175 |
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