Madonnas and Magdalens - The Origins and Developments of Victorian Sexual Attitudes

Heinemann, 1976

Surveys the sources, evolution, and literary and journalistic expressions of Victorian middle-class attitudes toward sex, nudity, and woman, noting gaps, when they occur, between attitude and actual behavior. A richly researched picture of a great and fascinating age. In examining the 19th century's attitude to sex and to the sexes, it raises implicity many questions about our own in the present day...

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