Primers for prudery
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"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Supplementing each of the excerpts with extensive commentary, he places the advice manuals in the larger setting of gender and class issues."--BOOK JACKET.
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