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Author Hayden, Wendy, 1977-

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

Imprint Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2013.

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Description viii, 259 p.
Series Studies in rhetorics and feminisms
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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 literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780809331017 (pbk. alk. paper)
0809331012 (pbk. alk. paper)
9780809331024 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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