Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: DENISOFFT HE common view that modern sexuality was invented through sci- ence, and especially by sexologists and social scientists such as Edward Carpenter, Havelock Ellis, and Richard von Krafft-Ebing, has encouraged an understanding of sexuality and desire through classificatory frameworks and models of measurable ab/normalcy.While Steven Marcus made famous the view that Victorians hid their bounty of sexuality under bustles of decorum and denial, Michel Foucault proposed no less than a macrostructural system tapping into the power of sexuality through institutionalizing discourses. 1 While offering crucial insights, these formulations have also tended to encourage a devaluing of the 882 VLC • VOL.46, NO.
Source: Victorian Literature and Culture
Author: Dennis Denisoff
Language: English
Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4243314165