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Bad examples: children, servants and masturbation in nineteenth-century France
- Abstract:
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This article examines a corpus of nineteenth-century French instructional texts offering guidance to bourgeois readers on the training and governance of domestic servants, and focuses on how these texts construct the relationship between servants and children in such a way as to sexualize both. Operating within a broadly Foucauldian paradigm, the article considers how masturbation appears as the ultimate symbol of sexual knowledge in the period. Like much of the contemporaneous medical writin...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- University of Texas Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of the History of Sexuality Journal website
- Volume:
- 22
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 403-425
- Publication date:
- 2013-09-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1535-3605
- ISSN:
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1043-4070
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:612680
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uuid:35c709b4-5853-4078-8b0d-03105dae6aae
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- pubs:612680
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612680
- Deposit date:
- 2016-04-01
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- Copyright holder:
- University of Texas Press
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2013 University of Texas Press. All rights reserved. This is the author accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from University of Texas Press at: http://dx.doi.org/10.7560/JHS22302
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