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

By: Hayden, Wendy, 1977-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in rhetorics and feminismsPublication details: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2013Description: viii, 259 pISBN: 9780809331024 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): 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 literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/928709034 LOC classification: PS217.W64 | H39 2013Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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