Acts of desire women and sex on stage, 1800-1930
Title:
Acts of desire women and sex on stage, 1800-1930
Author:
Eltis, Sos.
ISBN:
9780191653063
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Contents:
Seduced maidens and resourceful maids -- Bigamy and sensation -- English decency and French immorality -- Sex problems and nature's law -- Workers and wages -- Rewriting the past.
Abstract:
'Acts of Desire' is a study of theatrical depictions of illicit female sexuality, from seduction and prostitution to bigamy and adultery, from the beginning of the 19th century through to the 1930s.
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