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200 10$aSex expression and American women writers, 1860-1940$b[electronic resource] /$fDale M. Bauer
210   $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$d2009
215   $a1 online resource (292 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aThe sexualization of American culture -- Blood, sex, and the ugly girl -- Refusing middle age -- Sex power -- Inarticulate sex -- Is sex everything? -- Conclusion: sexual exhaustion.
330   $aAmerican 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 female
606   $aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism
606   $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism
606   $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism
606   $aSex in literature
606   $aLanguage and sex
606   $aExpression in literature
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615  0$aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
615  0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism.
615  0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism.
615  0$aSex in literature.
615  0$aLanguage and sex.
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