The antagonism between feminism and Victorianism is a direct consequence of the knot we have tied around our models of female sexuality. The paradox that female desire wa officially classified as abnormal and therefore infrequently experienced. Yet in both literature and the visual arts of the period, highly erotic images of women abound, as do those concerned with the consequences ofunnatural' sexual appetites in women.
The antagonism between feminism and Victorianism is a direct consequence of the knot we have tied around our models of female sexuality. The paradox that female desire wa officially classified as abnormal and therefore infrequently experienced. Yet in both literature and the visual arts of the period, highly erotic images of women abound, as do those concerned with the consequences ofunnatural' sexual appetites in women.
The antagonism between feminism and Victorianism is a direct consequence of the knot we have tied around our models of female sexuality. The paradox that female desire wa officially classified as abnormal and therefore infrequently experienced. Yet in both literature and the visual arts of the period, highly erotic images of women abound, as do those concerned with the consequences ofunnatural' sexual appetites in women.