Androgynous democracy
Subtitle: modern American literature and the dual-sexed body politic
By: Aaron Shaheen.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781572336865
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Sex in literature; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Modernism (Literature) -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "who need be afraid of the merge?"; title: "The social dusk of that mysterious democracy": race, sexology, and the modern woman in Henry James's postbellum America; title: Commercial androgyny: reformulating the modern liberal subject in Frank Norris and Charlotte Perkins Gilman; title: Reactionary and radical androgyny: two southerners assess the depression-era body politic; title: Race, gender, and democratic space in W.E.B. Du Bois and Marita Bonner; title: Epilogue: androgyny, fascism, and beyond.