Riotous Flesh

Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America

April R. Haynes (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2015
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-28462-0 (ISBN)

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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. As April Haynes shows, the crusade against female masturbation was rooted in a generally shared agreement on some major points: that girls and women were as susceptible to masturbation as boys and men; that "self-abuse" was rooted in a lack of sexual information; and that sex education could empower women and girls to master their own bodies. Yet the groups who made this education their goal ranged widely, from "ultra" utopians and nascent feminists to black abolitionists. Riotous Flesh explains how and why diverse women came together to popularize, then institutionalize, the condemnation of masturbation, well before the advent of sexology or the professionalization of medicine.

April Haynes is assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.10.2015
Reihe/Serie	American Beginnings, 1500-1900
Sprache	englisch
Maße	15 x 23 mm
Gewicht	369 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-226-28462-X / 022628462X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-28462-0 / 9780226284620
Zustand	Neuware