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Disorderly conduct : [electronic resource] visions of gender in Victorian America / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1985.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 357 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0394535456 :
  • 9780394535456
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.4/0973 19
LOC classification:
  • HQ1419 .S58 1985
NLM classification:
  • HQ 1419
Other classification:
  • 71.31
Online resources:
Contents:
1: Hearing women's words: a feminist reconstruction of history -- The female world of love and ritual: relations between women in nineteenth-century America -- 2: Bourgeois discourse and the age of Jackson: an introduction -- Davy Crockett as trickster: pornography, liminality, and symbolic inversion in victorian America -- Beauty, the beast, and the militant woman: a case study in sex roles and social stress in Jacksonian America -- The cross and the pedestal: women, anti-ritualism, and the emergence of the American Bourgeoisie -- 3: Bourgeois discourse and the progressive era: an introduction -- Puberty to menopause: the cycle of femininity in nineteenth-century America -- The hysterical woman: sex roles and role conflict in nineteenth-century America -- The abortion movement in the AMA, 1850-1880 -- The new woman as Androgyne: social disorder and gender crisis, 1870-1936.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1: Hearing women's words: a feminist reconstruction of history -- The female world of love and ritual: relations between women in nineteenth-century America -- 2: Bourgeois discourse and the age of Jackson: an introduction -- Davy Crockett as trickster: pornography, liminality, and symbolic inversion in victorian America -- Beauty, the beast, and the militant woman: a case study in sex roles and social stress in Jacksonian America -- The cross and the pedestal: women, anti-ritualism, and the emergence of the American Bourgeoisie -- 3: Bourgeois discourse and the progressive era: an introduction -- Puberty to menopause: the cycle of femininity in nineteenth-century America -- The hysterical woman: sex roles and role conflict in nineteenth-century America -- The abortion movement in the AMA, 1850-1880 -- The new woman as Androgyne: social disorder and gender crisis, 1870-1936.

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