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OverviewThis text examines the historical and social context as well as the substance of sexual advice manuals in 19th-century America. The excerpts allow the authors to speak for themselves on subjects ranging from the virtues of celibacy to the vices of masturbation and offer a reading of ""prudery"". Supplementing each of the excerpts with commentary, Ronald G. Walters places the advice manuals in the wider setting of gender and class issues. First published in 1974, the book appears here in an updated 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ronald G. Walters (The Johns Hopkins University)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Edition: updated edition Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.255kg ISBN: 9780801863486ISBN 10: 0801863481 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 11 August 2000 Recommended Age: From 17 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface, 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 IndexReviewsWalters 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 <p> 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 Author InformationRonald 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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