Hayden, Wendy, 1977-

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.


Electronic Books.

PS217 / .E965 2013