Items related to Primers for Prudery: Sexual Advice to Victorian America
In Primers for Prudery Ronald G. Walters examines the historical and social context as well as the substance of sexual advice manuals in nineteenth-century America. Allowing the authors of these manuals to speak for themselves―with generous excerpts by contemporary authorities on subjects ranging from the virtues of celibacy to the vices of masturbation―Walters offers his readers a complex reading of the Victorian "prudery" referred to in the book's title. Supplementing each of the excerpts with extensive commentary, he places the advice manuals in the larger setting of gender and class issues.
First published in 1974, Primers for Prudery now returns to print in a paperback edition with new selections from women's advice to women and a new preface in which Walters discusses changes that have occurred in the scholarship on sexuality since the book's first publication. He also provides an updated bibliographical note.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author:
Review:
Ronald G. Walters is a professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of American Reformers: 1815-1860 and The Antislavery Appeal: American Abolitionism after 1830 and editor of Scientific Authority in Twentieth-Century America (available from Johns Hopkins).
"Primers for Prudery offers a wide range of nineteenth-century documents relating to sexuality that are available nowhere else. Particularly useful are the book's internal divisions, which identify important categories of analysis for the study of nineteenth-century sexuality."
(Kathryn Kish Sklar, State University of New York at Binghampton)"Walters warns that by today's standards, the advice may appear naive, even ludicrous. Nevertheless, he urges us to put aside our smug presentism. The Victorians were not the wretched victims of sexual repression we may imagine. Rather they were women and men who found in restrictive sexual codes something of value appropriate to their lives. Why else would the repressive codes have endured so long?"
(American Quarterly)"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0801863481
- ISBN 13 9780801863486
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
- EditorWalters Ronald G.
- Rating
Buy New
Learn more about this copy
US$ 29.37
Shipping:
US$ 2.64
Within U.S.A.
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Seller Image
Primers for Prudery : Sexual Advice to Victorian America
Published by
Johns Hopkins University Press
(2000)
ISBN 10: 0801863481
ISBN 13: 9780801863486
New
Softcover
Quantity: 5
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 262026-n
Buy New
US$ 29.37
Convert currency
Seller Image
Primers for Prudery: Sexual Advice to Victorian America [Paperback ]
Published by
Johns Hopkins University Press
(2000)
ISBN 10: 0801863481
ISBN 13: 9780801863486
New
Soft Cover
Quantity: 10
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: new. Seller Inventory # 9780801863486
Buy New
US$ 32.02
Convert currency
Stock Image
Primers for Prudery: Sexual Advice to Victorian America
Published by
The Johns Hopkins University Press
(2000)
ISBN 10: 0801863481
ISBN 13: 9780801863486
New
Softcover
Quantity: 16
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. 2000. Paperback. . . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780801863486
Buy New
US$ 48.32
Convert currency
Seller Image
Primers for Prudery : Sexual Advice to Victorian America
Published by
Johns Hopkins University Press
(2000)
ISBN 10: 0801863481
ISBN 13: 9780801863486
New
Softcover
Quantity: 5
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 262026-n
Buy New
US$ 41.68
Convert currency
Stock Image
Primers for Prudery: Sexual Advice to Victorian America
Published by
The Johns Hopkins University Press
(2000)
ISBN 10: 0801863481
ISBN 13: 9780801863486
New
Softcover
Quantity: 16
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. 2000. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780801863486
Buy New
US$ 54.78
Convert currency
Stock Image
Primers for Prudery : Sexual Advice to Victorian America : ()
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: Brand New. Seller Inventory # 85314
Buy New
US$ 40.00
Convert currency
Seller Image
Primers for Prudery (Paperback)
Published by
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
(2000)
ISBN 10: 0801863481
ISBN 13: 9780801863486
New
Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This text examines the historical and social context as well as the substance of sexual advice manuals in 19th-century America. The excerpts allow the authors to speak for themselves on subjects ranging from the virtues of celibacy to the vices of masturbation and offer a reading of "prudery". Supplementing each of the excerpts with commentary, Ronald G. Walters places the advice manuals in the wider setting of gender and class issues. First published in 1974, the book appears here in an updated edition with new selections from women's advice to women and a new preface in which Walters discusses changes that have occurred in the scholarship on sexuality since the book's first publication. He also provides an updated bibliographical note. He provides an updated bibliographical note. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780801863486
Buy New
US$ 50.50
Convert currency