Umfang:
1 online resource (247 pages)
ISBN:
9783030881160
Serie:
Genders and Sexualities in History Ser.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Series Editor Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Psychological Androgyny: Uncovering a Radical Concept -- Chapter 2: Androgyny: Reception and Evolution of a Concept -- The Reputation of Platonism in England -- Heterosexual Uranianism: More Than Just Friends -- The Hermaphrodite: Dual-Sexed Figure of Chaos and Inequality -- The Conflation of Androgyny with Hermaphroditism -- The Science of Natural Androgynies? -- Androgyny, Erasmus Darwin and the Theory of Evolution -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: German Interdisciplinary Learning and the English Concept of Androgyny -- The German Revival of Platonism -- The Reception of Kant and Critical Philosophy in England: The Implications for Androgyny -- Reform and German Universities -- The Attraction of a German Education -- German Learning and English Radical Journals -- Androgyny and Biblical Mythi: Transmission of a German Idea -- Androgyny and German Science -- Coleridge and German Influence -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Education: Cultivating the Androgynous Mind -- The Historiography of Education -- Rational Dissent and the Psychology of Mind -- The Public/Private Debate, Androgyny and Mediation -- 'Cross-gender' Books and the Power of Conversation -- The Bonds of a 'Domestic' Coeducation -- The Challenge to Gender Stereotypes -- Male/Female Emulation and the Warnings of Gender Inversion and Effeminacy -- Androgynous Pedagogy and Conservative Fears of Corruption -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Androgyny: The Marriage of Equals -- Marriage in England -- The Hermaphroditical 'Shackles' of Spousal Unity -- The Eradication of 'Obedience' from the Marriage Ceremony -- Locke, Milton and the 'Natural' State of Spousal Unity -- Marriage and the Androgyny of Heterosexual Uranianism -- A Shared Vision -- Platonic Love Misinterpreted -- Conclusion.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783030881153
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030881153
Sprache:
Englisch
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