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Primers for Prudery : Sexual Advice to Victorian America, Paperback by Walters, Ronald G. (EDT), ISBN 0801863481, ISBN-13 9780801863486, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 th's title. Supplementing each of the excerpts with extensive commentary, he places the advice manuals in the larger setting of gender and class issues.

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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.

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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801863481
ISBN-13
9780801863486
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1633993

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Author
Ronald G. Walters
Publication Name
Primers for Prudery : Sexual Advice to Victorian America
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
208 Pages

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8.5in
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0.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
9 Oz

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Hq18.U5p75 2000
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College Graduate Student
Edition Description
Revised Edition,New Edition
Edition Number
2
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""Walters warns that by today's standards, the advice may appear naive, even ludicrous. Nevertheless, he urges us to put aside our smug presentism. The Victorians were not the wretched victims of sexual repression we may imagine. Rather they were women and men who found in restrictive sexual codes something of value appropriate to their lives. Why else would the repressive codes have endured so long?"", "Walters warns that by today's standards, the advice may appear naive, even ludicrous. Nevertheless, he urges us to put aside our smug presentism. The Victorians were not the wretched victims of sexual repression we may imagine. Rather they were women and men who found in restrictive sexual codes something of value appropriate to their lives. Why else would the repressive codes have endured so long?"-- American Quarterly, Walters warns that by today's standards, the advice may appear naive, even ludicrous. Nevertheless, he urges us to put aside our smug presentism. The Victorians were not the wretched victims of sexual repression we may imagine. Rather they were women and men who found in restrictive sexual codes something of value appropriate to their lives. Why else would the repressive codes have endured so long?
Table of Content
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
Copyright Date
2000
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Human Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), Sociology / General, United States / 19th Century, Sexual Instruction, Gender Studies, Popular Culture, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Lccn
99-041166
Dewey Decimal
301.41/7973
Dewey Edition
21
Genre
Self-Help, History, Social Science

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