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Riotous Flesh (Paperback)
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Riotous Flesh (Paperback)
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Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against
masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even
death. Riotous Flesh explores women's leadership of those
movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and
political effects, showing how a desire to transform the politics
of sex created unexpected alliances between groups that otherwise
had very different goals. As April Haynes shows, the crusade
against female masturbation was rooted in a generally shared
agreement on some major points: that girls and women were as
susceptible to masturbation as boys and men; that "self-abuse" was
rooted in a lack of sexual information; and that sex education
could empower women and girls to master their own bodies. Yet the
groups who made this education their goal ranged widely, from
"ultra" utopians and nascent feminists to black abolitionists.
Riotous Flesh explains how and why diverse women came together to
popularize, then institutionalize, the condemnation of
masturbation, well before the advent of sexology or the
professionalization of medicine.
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