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Evolutionary rhetoric : sex, science, and free love in nineteenth-century feminism /
In this book, the author explores the relationship between scientific and feminist rhetorics in free-love feminism, studying the movement from its inception in the 1850s to its dark turn toward eugenics in the early 1900s. The author organizes her provocative study by scientific discipline - evoluti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Studies in rhetorics and feminisms.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this book, the author explores the relationship between scientific and feminist rhetorics in free-love feminism, studying the movement from its inception in the 1850s to its dark turn toward eugenics in the early 1900s. The author organizes her provocative study by scientific discipline - evolution, physiology, bacteriology, embryology, and heredity. Each chapter explores how free-love feminists adopted the evidence of that discipline in their arguments for increased sex education, women's sexual rights, reproductive freedom, and the abolition of a marriage system that repressed the rights and the sexuality of women. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0809331020 9780809331024 |