To Kiss the Chastening Rod : Domestic Fiction and Sexual Ideology in the American Renaissance / G.M. Goshgarian.
Examining ideas about masturbation, female sexuality, the family, and post-Calvinist religion that shaped the readership of popular woman's fiction, To Kiss the Chastening Rod shows that passionlessness was the privileged theme of a pervasive discourse which sought to exert social control throu...
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