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Late-Victorian Sexual Respectability and the Social System

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Cominos, Peter T.·1963·International Review of Social History
DOI 10.1017/s0020859000002224
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As others before him, the late Humphrey House once remarked upon the paucity of our knowledge concerning sexual behavior in Victorian England. For House the extreme reticence of the Victorians magnified the value of every fragment of evidence pertaining to sexual behavior that scholars uncovered. To fathom the meaning of the extreme reticence itself does not seem to have been particularly relevant to the problem for House. In this paper, which is an analysis of late-Victorian Sexual Respectability, not only the fragmentary sorts of knowledge that House alluded to, but a comparatively unexplored source, medical books, have been made meaningful and interpreted within the frame of reference of the Respectable Social System prevailing in England roughly between 1859 and 1895.

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Authors
Cominos, P. T.
Affiliations
Washington University in St. Louis (US)
Corresponding author
Cominos, Peter T.
Venue
International Review of Social History
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
1963-04
Volume
8
Issue
1
Pages
18-48
ISSN
  • 0020-8590 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-512X
DOI
10.1017/s0020859000002224
OpenAlex
W4237323164
Cited by
73
References
0
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2012: 37
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0.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 16698 d)
Locations
International Review of Social History (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › History of Emotions Research
Keywords
late Victorian England, sexual behavior, medical books, social history of sexuality

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