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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Main Author: Bauer, Dale M., 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • The sexualization of American culture
  • Blood, sex, and the ugly girl
  • Refusing middle age
  • Sex power
  • Inarticulate sex
  • Is sex everything?
  • Conclusion: sexual exhaustion.