Evolutionary rhetoric : sex, science, and free love in nineteenth-century feminism

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

In this book, the author explores 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. The author organizes her provocative study by scientific discipline - evoluti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hayden, Wendy, 1977-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]
Series:Studies in rhetorics and feminisms.
Subjects:
1800-1899
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.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature > Women authors
Feminism
Free love
Rhetoric
Sex customs
Social problems in literature
Women and literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The Unlikely Rhetorical Allies of Science and Free-Love Feminism
  • The Season of Battle : The Rhetoric of Free-Love Feminism in Nineteenth-Century America
  • Evolutionary Theory : (R)Evolutionary 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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