Regulating Desire: From the Virtuous Maiden to the Purity Princess

Autori

• J. Shoshanna Ehrlich

Parametri

• 224 pagine
• 8 ore di lettura

• Donne
• Saggistica
• Storia

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Covers five distinct time periods in which changing social conditions generated considerable public anxiety about youthful female sexuality and examines how successive generations of reformers sought to revise the law in an effort to manage unruly desires and restore a gendered social order.--Provided by publisher

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2014

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