Attitudes toward sexuality and sexual identity

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General

• Gender Defined [In Cyberspace and Critical Theory web]
• Victorian theories of sex and sexuality

Heterosexuality: Victorian Notions of Masculinity

• Introduction
• The Law of the Father: Victorian Sentimentality and the New Fatherhood
• Trollope's Comfort Romances for Men: Heterosexual Male Heroism in his Work
• “Poor Lost Papa”: Old and New Fathers in Mid- and Late-Victorian Fiction
• Men in Tears: Moral, Physical, and Emotional Exhaustion in the Collins' Sensation Novels
• "Hegemonic masculinity" a more useful phrase for male power than "patriarchy"
• Trollope's sympathetic portraits of non-heroic men
• Masculinity in Charlotte Brontë, E. B. Browning, and Thomas Carlyle

Heterosexuality: Victorian Notions of Femininity

• Trollope's Heroines
• Wilkie Collins and "The Woman Question"
• Wives and Fathers: Fatherhood and Divorce Laws in the Victorian Novel
• The Victorian Custody Novel: Deceived and Deserted Daughters in The Evil Genius

Homosocial, Homosexual Sexual Identities: Lesbianism

Homosocial, Homosexual Sexual Identities: Gay

• Homoerotic elements in British Public School Novels
• The Earliest Writers in English on Homosexuality (Columbia U. site)
• John Addington Symonds's defence of homosexuality (Rictor Norton's complex, elegant UK site)

Bisexuality

Androgyny

• Algernon Charles Swinburne and the Philosophy of Androgyny, Hermaphrodeity, and Victorian Sexual Mores
• Manliness in Trollope's Female Characters

Gender and Science

• Knowledge of biology
• Contraception — state of knowledge, attitudes,

Gender and Society

• Wives and Fathers: Fatherhood and Divorce Laws in the Victorian Novel
• Love and Law in Wilkie Collins's Fictional Families
• "The Law of Abduction": Marriage and Divorce in Victorian Sensation and Mission Novels
• Sexual crimes

Gender and Science

• Knowledge of biology
• Contraception — state of knowledge, attitudes,

Bibliographies and Web Resources

• History of Sexuality Resources at Duke University

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Last modified 10 August 2006