Evolutionary rhetoric
Subtitle: sex, science, and free love in nineteenth-century feminism
By: Wendy Hayden
Series: Studies in rhetorics and feminisms
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780809331017; 9780809331024
Subjects: Rhetoric; History and criticism; American literature; History; Women authors; Social problems in literature; Women and literature; Sex customs; Feminism; Free love
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Season of Battle: The Rhetoric of Free-Love Feminism in Nineteenth-Century America; title: Evolutionary Theory: (R) volutionary Rhetorics in the Free Love Movement; title: Physiology: Rewriting the Body and Sexual Desire; title: Bacteriology: Marriage as a diseased Institution; title: Embryology: Toward a Eugenic Warrant for Free-Love Feminism; title: Heredity: The Disappearing Reform Warrant; title: Conclusion: Historiography and Feminist Uses of Eugenics.