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By Susan Mendus,Jane Rendall

ISBN-10: 0415013690

ISBN-13: 9780415013697

ISBN-10: 1138425427

ISBN-13: 9781138425422

Sexuality and Subordination makes use of the insights of a number disciplines to check the development of gender in nineteenth-century Britain and France. With contributions from heritage, literature, sociology and philosophy, its interdisciplinary technique demonstrates the level to which a standard concentration can remove darkness from difficulties inaccessible to any unmarried discipline.
'Victorianism' is usually understood to intend sexual double criteria, hypocrisy and prudery one of the heart sessions. yet, as this assortment indicates, the illustration of sexuality within the 19th century used to be extra various and intricate than is usually discovered. either artwork and literature aspect to the deployment of sexual metaphors and imagery, and the language of knowledgeable public opinion was once formed via the dichotomy among brain and topic, among rationality and sexuality. The individuals to this quantity discover how girls, in wondering their subordination, needed to problem a development of femininity which imposed sexual ignorance.

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