Yorkshire Lasses and their Lads: Sexuality, Sexual Customs, and Gender Antagonisms in Anglo-American Working-Class Culture.

The writer examines how Yorkshire lasses and older women used their sexuality to define their female adulthood through sexual experimentation during courtship, to discipline male aggressiveness and patriarchy, and to advance their status as working women. She asserts that Yorkshire working-class wo...

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Publicado en:	Journal of Social History Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 317 - 337
Autor principal:	Blewett, Mary
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Oxford University Press / UK Winter2006
Materias:	Smith, Hedley Working class women Women in literature British people History Women's sexual behavior Social history Working class United States Yorkshire (England)
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