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Riotous Flesh
19th century america
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amative indulgence
Author_April R. Haynes
black abolitionists
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female masturbation
feminism
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gender
health concerns
illness
insanity
licentiousness
medical history
political
politics
self-abuse
sex
sexology
sexual behavior
sexuality
social issues
solitary vice
unexpected alliances
united states
womens studies
Product details
- ISBN 9780226284590
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 21 Oct 2015
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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