Showing posts with label Eighteenth Century. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eighteenth Century. Show all posts
Exploring female sexuality and female agency in Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland (1748)  Active female sexuality always represents female agency: that is why it is feared. A discussion Gender “norms” dictated the eighteenth-century female as modest, demure and virtuous. Active female sexuality transgresses these social boundaries, proving women...