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Oneill, Therese.
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Women -- Social and moral questions -- 19th century.
Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Oneill, Therese.
Women -- Social and moral questions -- 19th century.
Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Unmentionable : the
Victorian
lady
's
guide
to
sex
,
marriage
, and
manners
/ Therese Oneill.
by
Oneill, Therese.
Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
Call #:
305.40942 O58u
Subjects
Women -- Social and moral questions -- 19th century.
Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9780316357913 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Victorian
lady
's
guide
to
sex
,
marriage
, and
manners
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
viii, 307 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-307)
Contents:
Hello, Slattern -- Getting Dressed: How to Properly Hide Your Shame -- Bowels into Buckets: Nature Is an Obscene Caller -- The Treacherous Art of Bathing -- Menstruation: You're Doing It Wrong -- Diet: You're a Little Bag of Pudding -- Beauty: Scorch, Slather. and Stuff -- Courtship: Not-Talking Your Way into His Heart -- The Wedding Night, or: a Bad Bit of Bumbo -- Birth Control and Other Affronts to God -- Being a Good Wife: How to Avoid His Eventual Resentment for as Long as Possible -- Running a Proper Household: The Gentle Art of Dictatorship -- Public Behavior: Avoiding Scorn, Dangers, and Museums -- It'
s
Hysterical: The LEast Funny Thing About
Victorian
Life -- The Secret Vice: "Where Warts and Tiny Nipples Come From" -- Conclusion: I Miss Pants -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography.
Summary:
"A scandalously honest
guide
to the secrets of
Victorian
womanhood. "If Unmentionable does not secure the Pulitzer Prize for Most Fascinating Book Ever, the whole gig is rigged. Therese Oneill opens the doors to everything we secretly wanted to know about the
Victorian
era, but didn't think to ask. Knickers with no crotches? Check. Arsenic as a facial scrub? Check. The infrequency of bathing and the stench of the
Victorian
human body? Check mate."--From publisher.
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