Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America Tapa blanda - 2015 - 1st Edición

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Paperback. 242p. paperback, 6x9 inches, very good. Illustrated with b&w photographs, and neat facsimiles of archival documents.

Paperback / softback. New. Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even death. Riotous Flesh explores women's leadership of those movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and political effects, showing how a desire to transform the politics of sex created unexpected alliances between groups that otherwise had very different goals. As April Haynes shows, the crusade against female masturbation was rooted in a generally shared agreement on some major points: that girls and women were as susceptible to masturbation as boys and men; that "self-abuse" was rooted in a lack of sexual information; and that sex education could empower women and girls to master their own bodies. Yet the groups who made this education their goal ranged widely, from "ultra" utopians and nascent feminists to black abolitionists. Riotous Flesh explains how and why diverse women came together… Leer más

Univ of Chicago Pr, 2015. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 242 pages. 7.00x5.00x1.00 inches.

Univ of Chicago Pr, 2015. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 242 pages. 7.00x5.00x1.00 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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