Evolutionary Rhetoric : Sex, Science, and Free Love in Nineteenth-Century Feminism /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hayden, Wendy, 1977-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women and literature.
Social problems in literature.
Sex customs.
Rhetoric.
Free love.
Feminism.
American literature > Women authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Problemes sociaux dans la litterature.
Feminisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Vie sexuelle > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Amour libre > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Femmes et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Rhetorique > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Écrits de femmes americains > Histoire et critique.
Feminism > United States > History > 19th century.
Sex customs > United States > History > 19th century.
Free love > United States > History > 19th century.
Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
Rhetoric > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The Unlikely Rhetorical Allies of Science and Free-Love Feminism
  • The Season of Battle : The Rhetoric of Free-Love Feminism in Nineteenth-Century America
  • Evolutionary Theory : (R)Evolutionary Rhetorics in the Free-Love Movement
  • Physiology : Rewriting the Body and Sexual Desire
  • Bacteriology : Marriage as a "Diseased" Institution
  • Embryology : Toward a Eugenic Warrant for Free-Love Feminism
  • Heredity : The Disappearing Reform Warrant
  • Conclusion : Historiography and Feminist Uses of Eugenics.

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