Riotous Flesh
Subtitle: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780226284590
Subjects: Women, sexual behavior; Masturbation; Women, united states, history; Feminism
Description: Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity and even death. 'Riotous Flesh' explores women's leadership of those movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social and political effects, showing how a desire to transform the politics of sex created unexpected alliances between groups that otherwise had very different goals.