Evolutionary rhetoric sex, science, and free love in nineteenth-century feminism - Hayden, Wendy, 1977-; ebrary, Inc. (Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2013)
The Season of Battle: The Rhetoric of Free-Love Feminism in Nineteenth-Century America -- Evolutionary Theory: (R) volutionary Rhetorics in the Free Love Movement -- Physiology: Rewriting the Body and Sexual Desire -- Bacteriology: Marriage as a diseased Institution -- Embryology: Toward a Eugenic Warrant for Free-Love Feminism -- Heredity: The Disappearing Reform Warrant -- Conclusion: Historiography and Feminist Uses of Eugenics.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Rhetoric -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Free love -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Sex customs -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Feminism -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Social problems in literature; Electronic books