Sex in Georgian England : Attitudes and Prejudices from the 1720s to the 1820s
viii, 206pp. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear on rear, price clipped. 8vo. Shows how the eighteenth century constructed the stereotype of female purity and passivity which was to be inherited by the Victorians and will be as of much interest to the sociologist and sex counsellor as to the historian and general reader.