Format:
Online-Ressource (401 p.)
ISBN:
9780415925006
Content:
Through an examination of the elimination of midwifery, the origins of gynaecology and attitudes to sexuality the author illuminates the state of manhood and misogyny in nineteenth century America
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction to the Second Edition; Introduction to the First Edition; 1 The American Man; 2 The Arena; 3 Work and Sex; 4 Democratic Fathers and Democratic Sons; 5 Freedom of Intercourse; 6 Strong Men over Orderly Women; 7 The Absence of Midwives from America; 8 Democratic Doctors; 9 The Rise of Gynecology; 10 Architect of the Vagina; 11 Sexual Surgery; 12 The Reverend John Todd; 13 Primers for Anxiety; 14 Todd's Masturbation Phobia; 15 The Spermatic Economy and Proto-Sublimation; 16 Men Earn-Women Spend; 17 Woman's Refinement
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18 Sex and Anarchy19 From Mother to Mother Earth; 20 Dr. Gardner's Education; 21 Gardner's Career; 22 The Physical Decline of American Women; 23 Punishing Women; 24 The Great Organ of Communication; Notes to Chapters; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780203009802
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415925006
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Horrors of the Half-Known Life : Male Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality in 19th. Century
Language:
English
Keywords:
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