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Riotous Flesh
April R. Haynes
其他書名
Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 2015-10-21
主題
History / General
History / United States / 19th Century
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Medical / History
Psychology / Human Sexuality
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Social Science / Women's Studies
ISBN
022628462X
9780226284620
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GdkpCwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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 R. 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.