Evolutionary rhetoric : sex, science, and free love in nineteenth-century feminism / Wendy Hayden.
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TextSeries: Studies in rhetorics and feminismsPublication details: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 0809331020
- 9780809331024
- 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
- Écrits de femmes américains -- Histoire et critique
- Rhétorique -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Femmes et littérature -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Amour libre -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Vie sexuelle -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Féminisme -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- American literature -- Women authors
- Feminism
- Free love
- Rhetoric
- Sex customs
- Social problems in literature
- Women and literature
- United States
- 1800-1899
- 810.9/928709034 23
- PS217.W64 H39 2012
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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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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