Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood
Cynthia Eagle Russett examines the Victorian relationship between science and gender in this historical study of womanhood. The book considers how ideas associated with sexual science helped shape cultural understandings of women, offering insight into the intellectual and social forces that defined femininity during the nineteenth century.
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Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood explores the ways Victorian-era scientific thought contributed to ideas about women and womanhood.
Cynthia Eagle Russett focuses on the relationship between sexual science and the cultural construction of gender.
The book offers a historical examination of how knowledge, social expectations, and definitions of womanhood intersected during the Victorian period.
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