id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_nwclqrkdzfdbdmqbexxikhr5aq Naomi Lloyd Evangelicalism and the making of same-sex desire : the life and writings of Constance Maynard (1849-1935) 2011.0 395 .pdf application/pdf 137292 10145 64 Phipps, for example, asserts that Maynard ―adopted‖ faith as ―a means of understanding and resisting her samesex desire‖ and that Maynard used religious discourse (the notion that love was a gift from God) to ―justify‖ and to The Evangelical discourse of the family was, however, the most significant nonregulatory mechanism to structure Maynard's same-sex desire. concomitant practice and have asked whether the absence of public discourses of female samesex sexuality rendered it impossible for later Victorian women to understand and to pursue Maynard's sexual subjectivity by both Puritan and Evangelical discourse. The year 1869 marked a new conjunction of religion and sexual desire in Maynard's life. John Maynard, Victorian Discourses on Sexuality and Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), If Evangelicalism had provided Maynard with a discourse of religious desire, the 1880s Evangelical discourse enabled Maynard to understand her desire as sexual and to ./cache/work_nwclqrkdzfdbdmqbexxikhr5aq.pdf ./txt/work_nwclqrkdzfdbdmqbexxikhr5aq.txt