Androgynous democracy : modern American literature and the dual-sexed body politic /
Shaheen, Aaron.
Knoxville, Tenn. : University of Tennessee Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: "who need be afraid of the merge?" -- "The social dusk of that mysterious democracy": race, sexology, and the modern woman in Henry James's postbellum America -- Commercial androgyny: reformulating the modern liberal subject in Frank Norris and Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Reactionary and radical androgyny: two southerners assess the depression-era body politic -- Race, gender, and democratic space in W.E.B. Du Bois and Marita Bonner -- Epilogue: androgyny, fascism, and beyond.
American literature
Sex in literature.
American literature
Politics and literature
Politics and literature
Modernism (Literature)