The horrors of the half-known life: male attitudes toward women and sexuality in nineteenth-century America
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1. Verfasser: Barker-Benfield, G. J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Routledge 2000
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Beschreibung:Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, ©1976. With new introd. - "Second edition"--Page xi
Includes bibliographical references and index
PART I: THE SEXES IN TOCQUEVILLE'S AMERICA: The American man -- The arena -- Work and sex -- Democratic fathers and democratic sons -- Freedom of intercourse -- Strong men over orderly women -- PART II: FROM MIDWIVES TO GYNECOLOGISTS: The absence of midwives from America -- Democratic doctors -- The rise of gynecology -- Architect of the vagina -- Sexual surgery -- PART III: THE LIGHTNING-ROD MAN: The Reverend John Todd -- Primers for anxiety -- Todd's masturbation phobia -- The spermatic economy and proto-sublimation -- Men earn, women spend -- Woman's refinement -- Sex and anarchy -- From mother to mother earth -- PART IV: AUGUSTUS KINSLEY GARDNER: Dr. Gardner's education -- Garnder's career -- The physical decline of American women -- Punishing women -- The great organ of communication
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (lvi, 352 pages)
ISBN:0203009800
0415925002
9780203009802
9780415925006

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