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Author Bauer, Dale M., 1956-

Title Sex expression & American women writers, 1860-1940 / Dale M. Bauer.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 277 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262) and index.
Contents The sexualization of American culture -- Blood, sex, and the ugly girl -- Refusing middle age -- Sex power -- Inarticulate sex -- Is sex everything? -- Conclusion: sexual exhaustion.
Summary 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 agency in.
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Subject American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- Women authors.
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Sex in literature.
Sex in literature.
Language and sex.
Language and sex.
Expression in literature.
Expression in literature.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Title Sex expression and American women writers, 1860-1940
Other Form: Print version: Bauer, Dale M., 1956- Sex expression & American women writers, 1860-1940. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009 9780807832301 0807832308 (DLC) 2008045181 (OCoLC)221141801
ISBN 9780807887691 (electronic book)
0807887692 (electronic book)
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0807832308 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780807832301 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0807859060 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780807859063 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780807832301 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780807859063 (paperback ; alkaline paper)