Primers for Prudery

Sexual Advice to Victorian America
Updated Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6348-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 249 g

In Primers for Prudery Ronald G. Walters examines the historical and social context as well as the substance of sexual advice manuals in nineteenth-century America. Allowing the authors of these manuals to speak for themselves—with generous excerpts by contemporary authorities on subjects ranging from the virtues of celibacy to the vices of masturbation—Walters offers his readers a complex reading of the Victorian "prudery" referred to in the book's title. Supplementing each of the excerpts with extensive commentary, he places the advice manuals in the larger setting of gender and class issues.

First published in 1974, Primers for Prudery now returns to print in a paperback edition with new selections from women's advice to women and a new preface in which Walters discusses changes that have occurred in the scholarship on sexuality since the book's first publication. He also provides an updated bibliographical note.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walters, Ronald G

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, 2000
Introduction
Chapter 1. Approaching This Delicate Subject
Chapter 2. A Destructive Impulse
Chapter 3. The Path Downward
Chapter 4. Woman, Sensuous and Otherwise
Chapter 5. Marriage
Chapter 6. and Other Forms of Exploitation
Chapter 7. Controls and Cures
Chapter 8. The Welcome Child
Chapter 9. Perfecting the Race
Afterword: Some Nineteenth-Century Lives
Epilogue: Cross Currents
Bibliographical Note
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Walters, Ronald G
Ronald G. Walters is a professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of American Reformers: 1815-1860 and The Antislavery Appeal: American Abolitionism after 1830 and editor of Primers for Prudery: Sexual Advice to Victorian America and A Black Woman's Odyssey: The Narrative of Nancy Prince.

Ronald G. Walters is a professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of American Reformers: 1815-1860 and The Antislavery Appeal: American Abolitionism after 1830 and editor of Scientific Authority in Twentieth-Century America (available from Johns Hopkins).