Female Love and Myths of Passionlessness
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Female Love and Myths of Passionlessness I found this week’s readings on the intimacies of 19th century female relationships to be very interesting. Carroll Smith-Rosenberg’s essay provided a very well-rounded look at the dynamics between women and how their close relationships were formed within societies. It makes sense that sexual-segregation would influence women to become […]
Female Love and Myths of Passionlessness
Tags: 19th century, birth control, passionlessness, sexual segregation, sexuality, Victorians, women
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Morality as Repression; Passionlessness as Liberty
Monday, March 8th, 2010
In Nancy F. Cott’s “Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790-1850” she talks about how between 1777 and 1794, a study of nine New England magazines indicates that in nonfiction and fiction stories, regarding illicit sex, men were punished, while women were given sympathy. This is interesting for two reasons: the first being that, […]
Morality as Repression; Passionlessness as Liberty
Tags: morality, Nancy F. Cott, passionlessness, Sylvester Graham, William Alcott, women
Posted in Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality, Mila Matveeva | 2 Comments »