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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779470703321

Autore

Hayden Wendy <1977->

Titolo

Evolutionary rhetoric [[electronic resource] ] : sex, science, and free love in nineteenth-century feminism / / Wendy Hayden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8093-3102-0

1-283-97095-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

Studies in rhetorics and feminisms

Disciplina

810.9/928709034

Soggetti

American literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Rhetoric - United States - History - 19th century

Women and literature - United States - History - 19th century

Free love - United States - History - 19th century

Sex customs - United States - History - 19th century

Feminism - United States - History - 19th century

Social problems in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Season of Battle: The Rhetoric of Free-Love Feminism in Nineteenth-Century America --  Evolutionary Theory: (R) volutionary 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.