Women's Studies 1020E Study Guide - Final Guide: Victorian Morality, Moral Panic, Gender Dysphoria

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 1020E
• Professor: Christopher Ellis

Document Summary

Victorian morality can describe any set of values that espouse sexual restraint, low tolerance of crime and a strict social code of conduct. Due to the prominence of the british empire, many of these values were spread across the world. Most of the laws used to arrest homosexuals and prostitutes come out of the victorian campaigns against white slavery . These campaigns produced the myriad prohibitions against solicitation lewd behavior; loitering for immoral purposes, age offenses (pg. Sexual essentialism is embedded in the folk wisdoms of. Western societies, which consider sex to be eternally unchanging, asocial and transhistorical. Dominated for over a century by medicine, psychiatry, and psychology, the academic study of sex has reproduced essentialism: the sex hierarchy (rubin): the need to draw and maintain an imaginary line between good and bad sex. Most of the discourses on sex be they religious, psychiatric, popular, or political.