Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790-1850

An influential essay in women's history examining how the idea that women were naturally lacking in sexual passion took hold in Anglo-American culture between 1790 and 1850, and how women themselves used that ideal to claim moral authority.

In the newsletter

• No. 17 Fall 1998

Elsewhere

• JSTOR
• Signs, vol. 4, no. 2, 1978