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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455381503321

Autore

Russett Cynthia Eagle

Titolo

Sexual science [[electronic resource] ] : the Victorian construction of womanhood / / Cynthia Eagle Russett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1989

ISBN

0-674-04302-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245p.)

Disciplina

305.30941

Soggetti

Sex differences

Sex role - History - 19th century

Women's studies - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. How to Tell the Girls from the Boys 2. Up and Down the Phyletic Ladder 3. Hairy Men and Beautiful Women 4. The Machinery of the Body 5. The Physiological Division of Labor 6. The Victorian Paradigm Erodes 7. Women and the Cosmic Nightmare Notes Index