03010nam 2200709Ia 450 991082494000332120240501043510.01-4696-0564-30-8078-8769-2(CKB)1000000000764486(EBL)454805(OCoLC)405094775(SSID)ssj0000244650(PQKBManifestationID)11188957(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000244650(PQKBWorkID)10171028(PQKB)11553425(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245888(MdBmJHUP)muse25665(Au-PeEL)EBL454805(CaPaEBR)ebr10310771(MiAaPQ)EBC454805(MiAaPQ)EBC4401635(EXLCZ)99100000000076448620081029d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSex expression and American women writers, 1860-1940 /Dale M. Bauer1st ed.Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press20091 online resource (292 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5906-0 0-8078-3230-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.The sexualization of American culture -- Blood, sex, and the ugly girl -- Refusing middle age -- Sex power -- Inarticulate sex -- Is sex everything? -- Conclusion: sexual exhaustion.American women novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries registered a call for a new sexual freedom, Dale Bauer contends. By creating a lexicon of ""sex expression,"" many authors explored sexuality as part of a discourse about women's needs rather than confining it to the realm of sentiments, where it had been relegated (if broached at all) by earlier writers. This new rhetoric of sexuality enabled critical conversations about who had sex, when in life they had it, and how it signified.Whether liberating or repressive, sexuality became a potential force for femaleAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismSex in literatureLanguage and sexExpression in literatureAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Sex in literature.Language and sex.Expression in literature.810.9/9287810.99287Bauer Dale M.1956-573520MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824940003321Sex expression and American women writers, 1860-19404068735UNINA