Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… century. One dimension of this ‘politeness’ is the extent to which men came to respect and pay due deference to conventions of physical etiquette that women sought to claim (doing so, in part, to protect their reputation and their … were seen by women as putting them at risk of further and fuller violations. Practices > Communication Mots-clés Conduct Conventions Dance Gender Kissing Propriety Touch In The Miser Married (1813), Catherine Hutton’s heroine, Charlotte … privilege extended by entering the dance – that accentuated its significance against a background of wider restrictive conventions concerning when an eligible woman might trust herself in a man’s hands? 1 . Catherine Hutton, The Miser …
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