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Disorderly conduct : visions of gender in Victorian America /
This first collection of essays by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, one of the leading historians of women, is a landmark in women's studies. Focusing on the "disorderly conduct" women and some men used to break away from the Victorian Era's rigid class and sex roles, it examines the dra...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1986, ©1985.
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Table of Contents:
- Hearing women's words : a feminist reconstruction of history ; The female world of love and ritual : relations between women in nineteenth-century America
- 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
- 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 and the AMA, 1850-1880 ; The new woman as androgyne : social disorder and gender crisis, 1870-1936.