Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women's Equality

by Joanne E. Passet

Questioning the commonplace view of the late nineteenth century as a period of passionless women and so-called Victorian sexuality, this study examines the spread of sex radical thought and notions of free love through American society in the second half of the nineteenth century. During this period a grass-roots movement of women and men, uncomfortable with the social, economic, and political inequalities they saw as inherent to the institution of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025202804X
• ISBN13: 9780252028045
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.5"