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Androgynous democracy : modern American literature and the dual-sexed body politic /

"Androgynous Democracy examines how the notions of gender equality propounded by transcendentalists and other nineteenth-century writers were further developed and complicated by the rise of literary modernism. Aaron Shaheen specifically investigates the ways in which intellectual discussions o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shaheen, Aaron
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2010.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: "who need be afraid of the merge?"
  • "The social dusk of that mysterious democracy": race, sexology, and the modern woman in Henry James's postbellum America
  • Commercial androgyny: reformulating the modern liberal subject in Frank Norris and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Reactionary and radical androgyny: two southerners assess the depression-era body politic
  • Race, gender, and democratic space in W.E.B. Du Bois and Marita Bonner
  • Epilogue: androgyny, fascism, and beyond.