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The Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality in 19th. Century America

Autor G.J. Barker-Benfield
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 oct 1999
Now a classic in the field, The Horrors of the Half-Known Life is an important foundational text in the construction of masculinity, female identity, and the history of midwivery.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415925006
ISBN-10: 0415925002
Pagini: 408
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

G. J. Barker-Benfield is Professor of History and Women's Studies at SUNY-Albany. He is the coeditor with Catherine Clinton of Portraits of American Women and author of The Culture of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain.

Recenzii

"A 'classic'-a wonderful work." -- Michael Kimmel, author of Manhood of America
"A truly pioneering study . . . that is likely to gain an entirely new readership." -- Bram Dijkstra, author of Evil Sisters: The Threat of Female Sexuality and the Cult of Manhood
"It tells a very important part of women's history-shocking and dreadful . . . when it was first published, it was ahead of its time." -- Robbie Davis-Floyd, coeditor of Cyborg Babies

Cuprins

Part I The Sexes in Tocqueville’s America; Chapter 1 The American Man; Chapter 2 The Arena; Chapter 3 Work and Sex; Chapter 4 Democratic Fathers and Democratic Sons; Chapter 5 Freedom of Intercourse; Chapter 6 Strong Men over Orderly Women; Part II From Midwives to Gynecologists; Chapter 7 The Absence of Midwives from America; Chapter 8 Democratic Doctors; Chapter 9 The Rise of Gynecology; Chapter 10 Architect of the Vagina; Chapter 11 Sexual Surgery; Part III The Lightning-Rod Man; Chapter 12 The Reverend John Todd; Chapter 13 Primers for Anxiety; Chapter 14 Todd’s Masturbation Phobia; Chapter 15 The Spermatic Economy and Proto-Sublimation; Chapter 16 Men Earn—Women Spend; Chapter 17 Woman’s Refinement; Chapter 18 Sex and Anarchy; Chapter 19 From Mother to Mother Earth; Part IV Augustus Kinsley Gardner; Chapter 20 Dr. Gardner’s Education; Chapter 21 Gardner’s Career; Chapter 22 The Physical Decline of American Women; Chapter 23 Punishing Women; Chapter 24 The Great Organ of Communication;