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He provides an updated bibliographical note.

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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? American Quarterly

Table of Contents

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

Primers for Prudery Sexual Advice to Victorian

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/08/2000
      ISBN13: 9780801863486, 978-0801863486
      ISBN10: 0801863481
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      He provides an updated bibliographical note.

      Trade Review
      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

      Table of Contents

      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

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