Examining ideas about masturbation, female sexuality, the family, and post-Calvinist religion that shaped the readership of popular woman’s fiction, To Kiss the Chastening Rod shows that passionlessness was the privileged theme of a pervasive discourse which sought to exert social control through the rigorous repression, minute supervision, and covert cultivation of sexuality.
Circa l’autore
G. M. Goshgarian is the translator of several books from Cornell, including The Jew and the Other and Three Women in Dark Times: Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil.
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Lingua Inglese ● Formato PDF ● Pagine 256 ● ISBN 9781501738609 ● Dimensione 24.9 MB ● Casa editrice Cornell University Press ● Città Ithaca ● Paese US ● Pubblicato 2019 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 7005955 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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