Female Moral Deviation in Victorian Culture
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The sexual deviance of women in nineteenth-century England embodies certain problematic aspects of contemporary culture―its desires, anxieties and preoccupations―as covered in numerous texts and images. The long-held assumption that sexuality is biologically determined as the basic natural drive of the human being has been fundamentally challenged. Related studies have demonstrated the politics of sexuality by identifying it as the vital locus of power in modern Western societies. Research indicates that sexuality is a historically constructed entity, conditioned by economic, political and socio-cultural processes. The specific modes of representation of the fallen woman in Victorian art illustrate the ways in which artistic and cultural practices intervene in the construction of and, to a far lesser degree, the revision of the dominant ideas, values and morals regarding sexuality. They thus ultimately affirm the point that sexuality is a contested arena in which social relations, divisions and struggles all come to the forefront.
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The sexual deviance of women in nineteenth-century England embodies certain problematic aspects of contemporary culture―its desires, anxieties and preoccupations―as covered in numerous texts and images. The long-held assumption that sexuality is biologically determined as the basic natural drive of the human being has been fundamentally challenged. Related studies have demonstrated the politics of sexuality by identifying it as the vital locus of power in modern Western societies. Research indicates that sexuality is a historically constructed entity, conditioned by economic, political and socio-cultural processes. The specific modes of representation of the fallen woman in Victorian art illustrate the ways in which artistic and cultural practices intervene in the construction of and, to a far lesser degree, the revision of the dominant ideas, values and morals regarding sexuality. They thus ultimately affirm the point that sexuality is a contested arena in which social relations, divisions and struggles all come to the forefront.
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