Evolutionary rhetoric sex, science, and free love in nineteenth-century feminism /
Wendy Hayden.
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource.
- Studies in rhetorics and feminisms .
Includes bibliographies 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.
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American literature--Women authors--History and criticism. Rhetoric--History--United States--19th century. Women and literature--History--United States--19th century. Free love--History--United States--19th century. Sex customs--History--United States--19th century. Feminism--History--United States--19th century. Social problems in literature.