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Sex expression and American women writers, 1860-1940 [[electronic resource] /] / Dale M. Bauer



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Autore: Bauer Dale M. <1956-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Sex expression and American women writers, 1860-1940 [[electronic resource] /] / Dale M. Bauer Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/9287
Soggetto topico: American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Sex in literature
Language and sex
Expression in literature
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: The sexualization of American culture -- Blood, sex, and the ugly girl -- Refusing middle age -- Sex power -- Inarticulate sex -- Is sex everything? -- Conclusion: sexual exhaustion.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 female
Titolo autorizzato: Sex expression and American women writers, 1860-1940  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4696-0564-3
0-8078-8769-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910455193703321
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