Intellectual or Moral (But Never Both)
Monday, March 8th, 2010
Intellectual or Moral (But Never Both) William Alcott’s suggestions for young women to avoid nymphomania seemed to emphasize cooling – not surprising, since both sexual desire or passion and the Devil are associated with heat and fire. But he also quoted a writer who said “the reading of lascivious and impassioned works, viewing voluptuous painting, […]
Intellectual or Moral (But Never Both)
Tags: morality, nymphomania, social constructivism
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Men and Women Both Think the Other is Evil, Society has Double Standards about Sex…. News at 11
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Men and Women Both Think the Other is Evil, Society has Double Standards about Sex…. News at 11 Cott’s essay on Victorian sexual ideologies clarified some of the themes and terms presented by The Scarlet Letter. As we discussed in last week’s class, adultery was only committed if the woman involved in the sexual activity […]
Men and Women Both Think the Other is Evil, Society has Double Standards about Sex…. News at 11
Tags: adultery, affliction, consequences, evil, fall, Hester Prynne, madness, morality, nymphomania, religion, Victorian, virtue
Posted in Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, Jaslee Carayol, Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality | 1 Comment »
