LEADER 04452nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910452409103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89053-4 010 $a0-8122-0198-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201987 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104584 035 $a(OCoLC)802048888 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576135 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000739742 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11421312 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000739742 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10688902 035 $a(PQKB)11648255 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441694 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18522 035 $a(DE-B1597)449053 035 $a(OCoLC)1013936129 035 $a(OCoLC)979580234 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201987 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441694 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576135 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420303 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104584 100 $a20040203d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVictoria Woodhull's sexual revolution$b[electronic resource] $epolitical theater and the popular press in nineteenth-century America /$fAmanda Frisken 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (236 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2188-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [193]-207) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tChronology of Events -- $tIntroduction: Victoria Woodhull, Sexual Revolutionary -- $tChapter 1. "The Principles of Social Freedom" -- $tChapter 2. "A Shameless Prostitute and a Negro" -- $tChapter 3. The Politics of Exposure -- $tChapter 4. "Queen of the Rostrum" -- $tConclusion: The Waning of the Woodhull Revolution -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aVictoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president, forced her fellow Americans to come to terms with the full meaning of equality after the Civil War. A sometime collaborator with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, yet never fully accepted into mainstream suffragist circles, Woodhull was a flamboyant social reformer who promoted freedom, especially freedom from societal constraints over intimate relationships. This much we know from the several popular biographies of the nineteenth-century activist. But what we do not know, as Amanda Frisken reveals, is how Woodhull manipulated the emerging popular media and fluid political culture of the Reconstruction period in order to accomplish her political goals. As an editor and public speaker, Woodhull demanded that women and men be held to the same standards in public life. Her political theatrics brought the topic of women's sexuality into the public arena, shocking critics, galvanizing supporters, and finally locking opposing camps into bitter conflict over sexuality and women's rights in marriage. A woman who surrendered her own privacy, whose life was grist for the mills of a sensation-mongering press, she made the exposure of others' secrets a powerful tool of social change. Woodhull's political ambitions became inseparable from her sexual nonconformity, yet her skill in using contemporary media kept her revolutionary ideas continually before her peers. In this way Woodhull contributed to long-term shifts in attitudes about sexuality and the slow liberation of marriage and other social institutions. Using contemporary sources such as images from the "sporting news," Frisken takes a fresh look at the heyday of this controversial women's rights activist, discovering Woodhull's previously unrecognized importance in the turbulent climate of Radical Reconstruction and making her a useful lens through which to view the shifting sexual mores of the nineteenth century. 606 $aFeminists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aWomen$xSuffrage$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSuffragists$zUnited States$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFeminists 615 0$aWomen$xSuffrage$xHistory. 615 0$aSuffragists 676 $a305.42/092 676 $aB 700 $aFrisken$b Amanda$01053615 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452409103321 996 $aVictoria Woodhull's sexual revolution$92485616 997 $aUNINA