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The horrors of the half-known life : male attitudes toward women and sexuality in nineteenth-century America /
Now a classic in the field, The Horrors of the Half-Known Life is an important foundational text in the construction of masculinity, female identity, and the history of midwivery.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PART I: THE SEXES IN TOCQUEVILLE'S AMERICA: The American man
- The arena
- Work and sex
- Democratic fathers and democratic sons
- Freedom of intercourse
- Strong men over orderly women
- PART II: FROM MIDWIVES TO GYNECOLOGISTS: The absence of midwives from America
- Democratic doctors
- The rise of gynecology
- Architect of the vagina
- Sexual surgery
- PART III: THE LIGHTNING-ROD MAN: The Reverend John Todd
- Primers for anxiety
- Todd's masturbation phobia
- The spermatic economy and proto-sublimation
- Men earn, women spend
- Woman's refinement
- Sex and anarchy
- From mother to mother earth
- PART IV: AUGUSTUS KINSLEY GARDNER: Dr. Gardner's education
- Garnder's career
- The physical decline of American women
- Punishing women
- The great organ of communication.