{"product_id":"riotous-flesh-women-physiology-and-the-solitary-vice-in-nineteenth-century-america-paperback","title":"Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eApril R. Haynes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even death. \u003ci\u003eRiotous Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e explores women's leadership of those movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and political effects, showing how a desire to transform the politics of sex created unexpected alliances between groups that otherwise had very different goals. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As April R. Haynes shows, the crusade against female masturbation was rooted in a generally shared agreement on some major points: that girls and women were as susceptible to masturbation as boys and men; that \"self-abuse\" was rooted in a lack of sexual information; and that sex education could empower women and girls to master their own bodies. Yet the groups who made this education their goal ranged widely, from \"ultra\" utopians and nascent feminists to black abolitionists. \u003ci\u003eRiotous Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e explains how and why diverse women came together to popularize, then institutionalize, the condemnation of masturbation, well before the advent of sexology or the professionalization of medicine.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eApril R. Haynes is assistant professor of history at the University of Oregon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 21, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52403608224049,"sku":"9780226284620","price":61.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3486\/5969\/files\/QUVBUS9yQkIzellEKzVVYTh1TXdJZz09.webp?v=1768921757","url":"https:\/\/www.welibooks.com\/products\/riotous-flesh-women-physiology-and-the-solitary-vice-in-nineteenth-century-america-paperback","provider":"Welibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}