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THE MAKING OF VICTORIAN SEXUALITY
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| By: |
Michael Mason |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198122470 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198122470 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
21 April, 1994 |
| Pages: |
360 |
| Description: |
What did the Victorians think about sex? What was the reality of their sexual behaviour? What wider concepts - biological, political, religious - influenced their sexual moralism? The Making of Victorian Sexuality draws on a wealth of evidence to overturn the orthodox modern picture of prudery and puritanism, and to present a Victorian sexual code which was intelligently embraced by wealthy and poor alike as part of a humane and progressive visionof society's future. |
| Synopsis: |
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 what did 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. Drawing on a wealth of sources from popular and professional medical and scientific texts to fiction, evangelical writing, and the work of radicals such as Godwin and Mill, 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 be in 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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8 pp plates |
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UK |
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Oxford University Press |
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