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The physician and sexuality in Victorian America / John S. Haller, Jr., and Robin M. Haller.
Van Pelt Library R727.3 .H3126 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haller, John S., Jr., 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicians--United States--Attitudes.
- Physicians.
- United States--Moral conditions.
- United States.
- Moral conditions.
- Women--United States--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Social conditions.
- Women--Health and hygiene--United States.
- Women--Health and hygiene.
- Sex customs--United States--History.
- Sex customs.
- History.
- Social Environment.
- Morals.
- Sexual Behavior--history.
- Women--history.
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
- Medical Subjects:
- Social Environment.
- United States.
- Morals.
- Sexual Behavior--history.
- Women--history.
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [1995]
- Summary:
- Although the middle class operated on a double standard, Victorian men faced enormous expectations and restrictions similar to the proscriptive role assigned Victorian women. John S. Haller, Jr., and Robin M. Haller cover the resulting nervous ailments common to Victorians, in addition to marriage and sexual relationships, proper hygiene, prostitution, and drug addiction, thus illuminating the ways doctors in Victorian America - ostensibly exponents of reason and science - became chauvinists, ready fountains of pronouncement and champions of manly burdens and womanly limitations. In one of the few sexual studies to deal with both genders, the authors reject the stereotypical view of Victorian sexuality. Discounting the popular dictum of the Victorian period as an aberration in the ascent of women to greater sexual freedom, they posit prudery as a mask behind which women sometimes gained greater freedom of person.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1974. With new pref.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-324) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0809320096
- OCLC:
- 31782884
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