Disorderly conduct : visions of gender in Victorian America /
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll.
Disorderly conduct : visions of gender in Victorian America / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg. - 1st ed. - New York : A.A. Knopf, 1985. - viii, 357 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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.
Essays look at feminist history, female friendships, Davy Crockett, sex roles, the feminine cycle, hysteria, abortion, and androgyny in nineteenth-century America.
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Women--History--United States--19th century.
Women--Social conditions.--United States
Middle class--History.--United States
Sex role--History.--United States
00030 United 11030 women 1837-1901 41030 sociological perspectives. Middle class United States History. Sex role United States History. Women United History 19th century. Women United Social conditions. Women United States History 19th century. Women United States Social conditions.
HQ1419 / .S58 1985
Disorderly conduct : visions of gender in Victorian America / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg. - 1st ed. - New York : A.A. Knopf, 1985. - viii, 357 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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.
Essays look at feminist history, female friendships, Davy Crockett, sex roles, the feminine cycle, hysteria, abortion, and androgyny in nineteenth-century America.
0394535456 9780394535456
84048821
Women--History--United States--19th century.
Women--Social conditions.--United States
Middle class--History.--United States
Sex role--History.--United States
00030 United 11030 women 1837-1901 41030 sociological perspectives. Middle class United States History. Sex role United States History. Women United History 19th century. Women United Social conditions. Women United States History 19th century. Women United States Social conditions.
HQ1419 / .S58 1985