Primers for Prudery: Sexual Advice to Victorian America

by Ronald G. Walters

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801863481
• ISBN13: 9780801863486
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"