Sex expression & American women writers, 1860-1940 /
American women novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries registered a call for a new sexual freedom, Dale Bauer contends. By creating a lexicon of sex expression, many authors explored sexuality as part of a discourse about women's needs rather than confining it to the real...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2009.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | American women novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries registered a call for a new sexual freedom, Dale Bauer contends. By creating a lexicon of sex expression, many authors explored sexuality as part of a discourse about women's needs rather than confining it to the realm of sentiments, where it had been relegated (if broached at all) by earlier writers. This new rhetoric of sexuality enabled critical conversations about who had sex, when in life they had it, and how it signified. Whether liberating or repressive, sexuality became a potential force for female agency in. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 277 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807887691 0807887692 9781469605647 1469605643 0807832308 9780807832301 0807859060 9780807859063 |