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Category Archives: Week 9: Same-Sex Desire in the Nineteenth Century
How did Boston Marriages Relate to the New Women?
The term “Boston Marriage” was meant to represent long-term, loving, monogamous partnerships between two unmarried women in the late 1800s (Faderman 190). These women could be classified as what came to be known as the “New Women” of the time, … Continue reading
The Internal Conflict of John Addington Symonds
John Addington Symonds was a widely-read writer who lived from 1840 to 1893. He was highly educated at Harrow School and studied classics at Balliol College, Oxford. Symonds, while a wealthy and successful upstanding man on the outside, differed on … Continue reading
All Roads Lead To Rome
The people of the Victorian era were a group that lived in an exciting time of social development, with psychology emerging and new schools of thoughts being born from Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Thomas Brown amongst others. However, the … Continue reading
Not Merely a “Figure of Speech”
Benjamin Jowett, a professor of Greek at Oxford in the 19th century, proudly proclaimed a “historicist approach to the ancient world,” saying that “an objective and ethically detached stance” was necessary for the production of truthful research (Orells 2015, 110). … Continue reading
The Relationship of Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus
In the story ‘No Kisses Is Like Youres’: An Erotic Friendship between Two African-American Women during the Mid-Nineteenth Century, by Karen V. Hansen, two African American women, Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus endured pain in their relationship and throughout … Continue reading
Just Gals Being Pals
They say history repeats itself, but in some cases it does not change at all. There is ample evidence of this being the case when it comes to the view of lesbian relationships in western society. By looking at today’s … Continue reading
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