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Simon Joyce, "LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives" (Oxford UP, 2022)

New Books in Critical Theory

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Cultural Anxiety and Male Effeminacy in Victorian England

This chapter explores the cultural anxiety surrounding male effeminacy in the 19th century and how it intersected with power dynamics among the elite. It delves into attempts to redefine ideal partners through age-based and class-based models, highlighting the difficulty of thinking outside binary terms in that era.

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