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Sexual Progressives : Reimagining Intimacy in Scotland, 1880-1914.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Gender in History SeriesPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (245 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526125262
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sexual ProgressivesDDC classification:
  • 306.709411
LOC classification:
  • HQ21 .C443 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The reach of the 'unco guid' -- Matrons, maidens and new men -- Re-sexing religion in suburban Glasgow -- Realising a more than earthly paradise of love -- Deeds of daring rectitude -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Sexual Progressives is a major new study of the feminists and socialists who campaigned against the moral conservatism of Victorian Scotland. Drawing on a range of sources, from letters and diaries to radical newspapers and utopian novels, its arguments disrupt current understandings of progressive thought and behaviour in fin de siecle Britain.
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Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The reach of the 'unco guid' -- Matrons, maidens and new men -- Re-sexing religion in suburban Glasgow -- Realising a more than earthly paradise of love -- Deeds of daring rectitude -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Index.

Sexual Progressives is a major new study of the feminists and socialists who campaigned against the moral conservatism of Victorian Scotland. Drawing on a range of sources, from letters and diaries to radical newspapers and utopian novels, its arguments disrupt current understandings of progressive thought and behaviour in fin de siecle Britain.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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