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Riotous Flesh
April R. Haynes
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Description for Riotous Flesh
Paperback. Series: American Beginnings, 1500 - 1900. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even death. Riotous Flesh explores women's leadership of those movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and political effects, showing how a desire to transform the politics of sex created unexpected alliances between groups that otherwise had very different goals. As April Haynes shows, the crusade against female masturbation was rooted in a generally shared agreement on some major points: that girls and women were as susceptible to masturbation as boys and men; that "self-abuse" was rooted in a lack of sexual ... Read more
Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even death. Riotous Flesh explores women's leadership of those movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and political effects, showing how a desire to transform the politics of sex created unexpected alliances between groups that otherwise had very different goals. As April Haynes shows, the crusade against female masturbation was rooted in a generally shared agreement on some major points: that girls and women were as susceptible to masturbation as boys and men; that "self-abuse" was rooted in a lack of sexual ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
American Beginnings, 1500 - 1900
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226284620
SKU
V9780226284620
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About April R. Haynes
April Haynes is assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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