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Riotous flesh : women, physiology, and the solitary vice in nineteenth-century America
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Riotous flesh : women, physiology, and the solitary vice in nineteenth-century America / April R. Haynes.
ISBN
9780226284767 (ebook) :
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Previously issued in print: 2015.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 22, 2016).
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Summary
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.
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Chicago scholarship online.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 10, 2016
Series
American beginnings, 1500-1900
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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