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1 online resource. |
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Studies in rhetorics and feminisms
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Studies in rhetorics and feminisms.
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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. |
| Summary |
In Evolutionary Rhetoric, scholar Wendy Hayden provides a comprehensive examination of the relationship between scientific and feminist rhetorics in free-love feminism, studying the movement from its inception in the 1850s to its dark turn toward eugenics in the early 1900s. Hayden organizes her provocative study by scientific discipline-evolution, physiology, bacteriology, embryology, and heredity. Each chapter explores how free-love feminists adopted the evidence of that discipline in their arguments for increased sex education, women's sexual rights, reproduc. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Women authors. |
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Rhetoric -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Rhetoric. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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19th century |
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Women and literature. |
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Free love -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Free love. |
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Sex customs -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Sex customs. |
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Feminism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Feminism. |
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Social problems in literature.
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Social problems in literature. |
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1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Sexual practices. |
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
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Print version: Hayden, Wendy, 1977- Evolutionary rhetoric. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2013 9780809331017 0809331012 (DLC) 2012018938 |
| ISBN |
0809331020 (electronic book) |
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9780809331024 (electronic book) |
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9780809331017 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0809331012 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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