Evolutionary Rhetoric: Sex, Science, and Free Love in Nineteenth-Century Feminism

by Wendy Hayden

In Evolutionary Rhetoric, scholar Wendy Hayden provides a comprehensive examination of the relationship between scientific and feminist rhetorics in free-love feminism, studying the movement from its inception in the 1850s to its dark turn toward eugenics in the early 1900s. Hayden organizes her provocative study by scientific discipline--evolution, physiology, bacteriology, embryology, and heredity. Each chapter explores how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809331012
• ISBN13: 9780809331017
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"