{"product_id":"making-of-victorian-sexuality-the","title":"Making of Victorian Sexuality, The","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat did the Victorians think about sex?  What was the reality of their sexual behaviour?  What wider concepts - biological, political, religious - influenced their sexual moralism?    The Making of Victorian Sexuality directly confronts one of the most persistent clichés of modern times.  Drawing on an exceptionally wide range of evidence about 19th-century behaviour and opinion - from modern demographic analysis to the travel\n\u003cbr\u003ewriting of foreign visitors, and from popular medicine to Malthusian polemic - Michael Mason shows how much of our perception of 19th-century sexual culture is simply wrong.  Far from being a licence for prudery and\n\u003cbr\u003ehypocrisy, Victorian sexual moralism is shown to be in reality a code intelligently embraced by wealthy and poor alike as part of a human and progressive vision of society's future.  The \"Average\" Victorian man, for example, was not necessarily the church-going, tyrannical, secretly lecherous, bourgeois pater familias of modern-day legend, but often an agnostic, radical-minded, sexually continent citizen, with a deliberately restricted number of children.    A lively and\n\u003cbr\u003efascinating synthesis of a wealth of new research.  The Making of Victorian Sexuality is a timely disruption of our present comfortable consensus on nineteenth-century society. Moreover, it persuasively\n\u003cbr\u003eargues that in Victorian sexual moralism there may be much to teach the complacently libertarian 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156786278638,"sku":"9780192853127","price":78.53,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780192853127.jpg?v=1706231866","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/making-of-victorian-sexuality-the","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}