Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America by April Haynes

Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America

April Haynes

242 pages • 2015

1 edition

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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...

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