Examining ideas about masturbation, female sexuality, the family, and post-Calvinist religion that shaped the readership of popular woman's fiction, To Kiss the Chastening Rod shows that passionlessness was the privileged theme of a pervasive discourse which sought to exert social control through the rigorous repression, minute supervision, and covert cultivation of sexuality.
Examining ideas about masturbation, female sexuality, the family, and post-Calvinist religion that shaped the readership of popular woman's fiction, To Kiss the Chastening Rod shows that passionlessness was the privileged theme of a pervasive discourse which sought to exert social control through the rigorous repression, minute supervision, and covert cultivation of sexuality.
To Kiss the Chastening Rod: Domestic Fiction and Sexual Ideology in the American Renaissance
256
To Kiss the Chastening Rod: Domestic Fiction and Sexual Ideology in the American Renaissance
256
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781501738609 |
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| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Publication date: | 04/15/2019 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 256 |
| File size: | 25 MB |
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| Age Range: | 18 Years |