The horrors of the half-known life : male attitudes toward women and sexuality in nineteenth-century America /
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Now a classic in the field, The Horrors of the Half-Known Life is an important foundational text in the construction of masculinity, female identity, and the history of midwivery.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barker-Benfield, G. J.
Corporate Author: PALCI EBSCO books
Format: Online Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2000.
Subjects:
Sex role > United States > History > 19th century.
Sex customs > United States > History > 19th century.
Men > United States > Attitudes > History > 19th century.
Gynecology > United States > History > 19th century.
Gender Identity.
Gynecology > history.
United States.
Access:Online version
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Table of Contents:
  • PART I: THE SEXES IN TOCQUEVILLE'S AMERICA: The American man
  • The arena
  • Work and sex
  • Democratic fathers and democratic sons
  • Freedom of intercourse
  • Strong men over orderly women
  • PART II: FROM MIDWIVES TO GYNECOLOGISTS: The absence of midwives from America
  • Democratic doctors
  • The rise of gynecology
  • Architect of the vagina
  • Sexual surgery
  • PART III: THE LIGHTNING-ROD MAN: The Reverend John Todd
  • Primers for anxiety
  • Todd's masturbation phobia
  • The spermatic economy and proto-sublimation
  • Men earn, women spend
  • Woman's refinement
  • Sex and anarchy
  • From mother to mother earth
  • PART IV: AUGUSTUS KINSLEY GARDNER: Dr. Gardner's education
  • Garnder's career
  • The physical decline of American women
  • Punishing women
  • The great organ of communication.

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