Sex Expression and American Women Writers, 1860-1940

Sex Expression and American Women Writers, 1860-1940
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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 293
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ISBN-10 : 9780807832301
ISBN-13 : 0807832308
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Download or read book Sex Expression and American Women Writers, 1860-1940 written by Dale M. Bauer and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American women novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries registered a call for a new sexual freedom, Dale Bauer contends. By creating a lexicon of "sex expression," many authors explored sexuality as part of a discourse about women's needs rather than confining it to the realm of sentiments, where it had been relegated (if broached at all) by earlier writers. This new rhetoric of sexuality enabled critical conversations about who had sex, when in life they had it, and how it signified. Whether liberating or repressive, sexuality became a potential force for female agency in these women's novels, Bauer explains, insofar as these novelists seized the power of rhetoric to establish their intellectual authority. Thus, Bauer argues, they helped transform the traditional ideal of sexual purity into a new goal of sexual pleasure, defining in their fiction what intimacy between equals might become. Analyzing the work of canonical as well as popular writers_including Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, Julia Peterkin, and Fannie Hurst, among others_Bauer demonstrates that the new sexualization of American culture was both material and rhetorical.


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