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- catalog abstract "Why and when did sexuality become an important political issue for Victorian feminists? Why were Edwardian feminists so divided in their views about sexual freedom and its relationship to women's emancipation? The Real Facts of Life tackles these important questions, providing an analysis of the struggle for female sexual autonomy which posed a significant threat to the structure of male power during this period. It shows how feminists confronted the institution of heterosexuality by waging campaigns to expose what they called 'The Real Facts of Life': the sexual exploitation of women in marriage and prostitution, and the double standard of sexual morality which legitimated this as 'natural'. The author analyses the work of feminist theorists such as Elizabeth Blackwell, who challenged the patriarchal model of sexuality and argued that sexuality was socially constructed. She discusses the attempts by feminists to construct a feminist model of sexuality based on female sexual autonomy; and shows how the scientific 'experts' of the early twentieth century undermined this process by redefining as natural what feminists had exposed as political. This challenging book, with its radical approach to the social construction of sexuality, is a valuable contribution to feminists' thinking about sexuality today. It is essential reading for all those interested in the interrelationship of sex and power.".
- catalog contributor b5857603.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-195) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Feminism, Sexuality and Male Power: The Political versus the Natural -- Ch. 1. Sex, Class and Hetero-Relations: Feminism and the Politicization of Sexuality in Victorian and Edwardian England -- Ch. 2. 'The Real Facts of Life': Militant Feminism and the Double Standard of Sexual Morality -- Ch. 3. Towards a Feminist Model of Sexuality: Elizabeth Blackwell -- Ch. 4. 'Sex Freedom' or Female Sexual Autonomy?: Tensions and Divisions within Feminism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Ch. 5. Eroticizing Women's Oppression: Havelock Ellis and the Construction of the 'Natural' -- Ch. 6. The Unhappy Marriage of Feminism and Sexology: Marie Stopes and the 'Laws of Love' -- Ch. 7. 'Teaching What Comes Naturally?': The Politics of Desire in the Marriage Manuals of the '20s and '30s -- Conclusion: Feminism and the Power to Define our own Sexuality.".
- catalog description "It shows how feminists confronted the institution of heterosexuality by waging campaigns to expose what they called 'The Real Facts of Life': the sexual exploitation of women in marriage and prostitution, and the double standard of sexual morality which legitimated this as 'natural'.".
- catalog description "The author analyses the work of feminist theorists such as Elizabeth Blackwell, who challenged the patriarchal model of sexuality and argued that sexuality was socially constructed. She discusses the attempts by feminists to construct a feminist model of sexuality based on female sexual autonomy; and shows how the scientific 'experts' of the early twentieth century undermined this process by redefining as natural what feminists had exposed as political.".
- catalog description "This challenging book, with its radical approach to the social construction of sexuality, is a valuable contribution to feminists' thinking about sexuality today. It is essential reading for all those interested in the interrelationship of sex and power.".
- catalog description "Why and when did sexuality become an important political issue for Victorian feminists? Why were Edwardian feminists so divided in their views about sexual freedom and its relationship to women's emancipation? The Real Facts of Life tackles these important questions, providing an analysis of the struggle for female sexual autonomy which posed a significant threat to the structure of male power during this period.".
- catalog extent "vii, 206 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0748400990 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "0748401008 (pbk : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Gender and society".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; Bristol, PA : Taylor & Francis,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "306.7/082 20".
- catalog subject "Feminism History.".
- catalog subject "Feminism United States History.".
- catalog subject "Feminism history [MESH]".
- catalog subject "HQ1419 .J3 1994".
- catalog subject "Sexual ethics United States History.".
- catalog subject "Sexual ethics for women United States History.".
- catalog subject "Women Sexual behavior United States History.".
- catalog subject "Women United States Sexual behavior History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Feminism, Sexuality and Male Power: The Political versus the Natural -- Ch. 1. Sex, Class and Hetero-Relations: Feminism and the Politicization of Sexuality in Victorian and Edwardian England -- Ch. 2. 'The Real Facts of Life': Militant Feminism and the Double Standard of Sexual Morality -- Ch. 3. Towards a Feminist Model of Sexuality: Elizabeth Blackwell -- Ch. 4. 'Sex Freedom' or Female Sexual Autonomy?: Tensions and Divisions within Feminism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Ch. 5. Eroticizing Women's Oppression: Havelock Ellis and the Construction of the 'Natural' -- Ch. 6. The Unhappy Marriage of Feminism and Sexology: Marie Stopes and the 'Laws of Love' -- Ch. 7. 'Teaching What Comes Naturally?': The Politics of Desire in the Marriage Manuals of the '20s and '30s -- Conclusion: Feminism and the Power to Define our own Sexuality.".
- catalog title "The real facts of life : feminism and the politics of sexuality, c1850-1940 / Margaret Jackson.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".