Hauling down the double standard: Feminism, social purity and sexual science in late nineteenth-century Britain

Gender and History

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 36-56

  Hall, Lesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMINISM; GENDER RELATIONS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 2942709614     PISSN: 09535233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-5233.2004.325_1.x     Document Type: Article

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