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BL
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951111
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b705481
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Bauer, Dale M.,1956-
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Sex expression American women writers, 1860-1940 /\ Dale M. Bauer.
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| Publication Statement
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (xi, 277 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0807832308
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: 9780807832301
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: 9780807859063
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: 9781469605647
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9780807832301
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9780807859063
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262) and index.
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| Contents
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The sexualization of American culture -- Blood, sex, and the ugly girl -- Refusing middle age -- Sex power -- Inarticulate sex -- Is sex everything? -- Conclusion: sexual exhaustion.
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| Abstract
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American women novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries registered a call for a new sexual freedom, Dale Bauer contends. By creating a lexicon of sex expression, many authors explored sexuality as part of a discourse about women's needs rather than confining it to the realm of sentiments, where it had been relegated (if broached at all) by earlier writers. This new rhetoric of sexuality enabled critical conversations about who had sex, when in life they had it, and how it signified. Whether liberating or repressive, sexuality became a potential force for female agency in.
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American fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
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American fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Expression in literature.
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Language and sex.
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Sex in literature.
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American fiction-- Women authors.
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American fiction.
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Expression in literature.
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Language and sex.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- Women Authors.
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Sex in literature.
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/9287
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| LC Classification
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PS151.B38 2009eb
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| Parallel Title
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Sex expression and American women writers, 1860-1940
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