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The Unsexed Mind and Psychological Androgyny, 1790-1848

Radicalism, Reform and Gender in England

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Authors:
  1. Victoria F. Russell

    1. History (School of Humanities), Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme, UK

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  • Explores a significant lacuna in British history between the 1790s and the 1840s
  • Offers a substantial revision to understandings of progressive debates on gender
  • Uniquely focuses directly on the concept of the unsexed mind in contemporary discourse

Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Psychological Androgyny: Uncovering a Radical Concept

    • Victoria F. Russell
    Pages 1-16

  3. Androgyny: Reception and Evolution of a Concept

    • Victoria F. Russell
    Pages 17-55

  4. German Interdisciplinary Learning and the English Concept of Androgyny

    • Victoria F. Russell
    Pages 57-94

  5. Education: Cultivating the Androgynous Mind

    • Victoria F. Russell
    Pages 95-132

  6. Androgyny: The Marriage of Equals

    • Victoria F. Russell
    Pages 133-172

  7. Political Reform and the Decline of Androgyny

    • Victoria F. Russell
    Pages 173-199

  8. Conclusion

    • Victoria F. Russell
    Pages 201-209

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 211-240
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About this book

This book explores a significant lacuna in British history. Between the 1790s and the 1840s, the concept of psychological androgyny or the unsexed mind emerged as a notion of psychosexual equality, promoted by a small though influential network of heterodox radicals on the margins of Rational Dissent. Deeply concerned with the growing segregation of the sexes, supported seemingly by arbitrary and increasingly binary models of sexual difference, heterodox radicals insisted that while the body might be sexed, the mind was not. They argued that society and the prejudicial masculinist institutions of patriarchy should be reformed to accommodate and protect what one radical described as an ‘infinitely varied humanity’. In placing the concept of psychological androgyny centre stage, this book offers a substantial revision to understandings of progressive debates on gender in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century in Britain. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • History (School of Humanities), Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme, UK

    Victoria F. Russell

About the author

Victoria F. Russell is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Keele University, UK.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Unsexed Mind and Psychological Androgyny, 1790-1848

  • Book Subtitle: Radicalism, Reform and Gender in England

  • Authors: Victoria F. Russell

  • Series Title: Genders and Sexualities in History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88116-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88115-3Published: 19 December 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88118-4Published: 20 December 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-88116-0Published: 01 January 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2730-9479

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9487

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 240

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Cultural History, Gender Studies

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