Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. Disorderly conduct : : visions of gender in Victorian America / [electronic resource] / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg.. — 1st ed.. — New York : : A.A. Knopf,, 1985.. — viii, 357 p., [8] p. of plates : : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1: Hearing women's words: a feminist reconstruction of history -- The female world of love and ritual: relations between women in nineteenth-century America -- 2: Bourgeois discourse and the age of Jackson: an introduction -- Davy Crockett as trickster: pornography, liminality, and symbolic inversion in victorian America -- Beauty, the beast, and the militant woman: a case study in sex roles and social stress in Jacksonian America -- The cross and the pedestal: women, anti-ritualism, and the emergence of the American Bourgeoisie -- 3: Bourgeois discourse and the progressive era: an introduction -- Puberty to menopause: the cycle of femininity in nineteenth-century America -- The hysterical woman: sex roles and role conflict in nineteenth-century America -- The abortion movement in the AMA, 1850-1880 -- The new woman as Androgyne: social disorder and gender crisis, 1870-1936.



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Women--History--United States--19th century.
Women--Social conditions.--United States
Middle class--History.--United States
Sex role--History.--United States
Femmes--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siècle.
Femmes--Conditions sociales.--États-Unis
Bourgeoisie--Histoire.--États-Unis
Rôle selon le sexe--Histoire.--États-Unis
Gender Identity--United States--Essays.
Identification (Psychology)--United States--Essays.
Women--psychology--United States--Essays.
Women's Rights--history--United States--Essays.
Vrouwen.
Feminisme.
Burgerij.

HQ1419 / .S58 1985

305.4/0973

HQ 1419 / S6583d 1985