Posts Tagged: passionlessness

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 […]

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, […]