| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 357 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Middle class -- United States -- History.
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Sex role -- United States -- History.
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Gender Identity.
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Identification, Psychological -- Essays.
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Women -- psychology -- Essays.
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Women's Rights -- history -- United States -- Essays.
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| ISBN |
0394535456: $19.95 |
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