Evolutionary rhetoric [electronic resource] : sex, science, and free love in nineteenth-century feminism / Wendy Hayden.
Series: Studies in rhetorics and feminismsPublication details: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2013.Description: viii, 259 pISBN:- 9780809331017 (pbk. alk. paper)
- 0809331012 (pbk. alk. paper)
- 9780809331024 (e-book)
- 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
- 810.9/928709034 23
- PS217.W64 H39 2013eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.