TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith-Rosenberg,Carroll
TI  - Disorderly conduct: visions of gender in Victorian America 
SN  - 0394535456
AV  - HQ1419 .S58 1985
PY  - 1985///
CY  - New York
PB  - A.A. Knopf
KW  - Women
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Middle class
KW  - Sex role
KW  - 00030
KW  - United
KW  - 11030
KW  - women
KW  - 1837-1901
KW  - 41030
KW  - sociological perspectives
N1  - 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
N2  - Essays look at feminist history, female friendships, Davy Crockett, sex roles, the feminine cycle, hysteria, abortion, and androgyny in nineteenth-century America
ER  -