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019 _a(OCoLC)979580234
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072 7 _aBIO022000
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082 0 4 _a305.42/092
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aFrisken, Amanda
_eautore
245 1 0 _aVictoria Woodhull's Sexual Revolution :
_bPolitical Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America /
_cAmanda Frisken.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2012]
264 4 _c©2004
300 _a1 online resource (240 p.) :
_b39 illus.
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tChronology of Events --
_tIntroduction: Victoria Woodhull, Sexual Revolutionary --
_tChapter 1. “The Principles of Social Freedom” --
_tChapter 2. “A Shameless Prostitute and a Negro” --
_tChapter 3. The Politics of Exposure --
_tChapter 4. “Queen of the Rostrum” --
_tConclusion: The Waning of the Woodhull Revolution --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aVictoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president, forced her fellow Americans to come to terms with the full meaning of equality after the Civil War. A sometime collaborator with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, yet never fully accepted into mainstream suffragist circles, Woodhull was a flamboyant social reformer who promoted freedom, especially freedom from societal constraints over intimate relationships. This much we know from the several popular biographies of the nineteenth-century activist. But what we do not know, as Amanda Frisken reveals, is how Woodhull manipulated the emerging popular media and fluid political culture of the Reconstruction period in order to accomplish her political goals. As an editor and public speaker, Woodhull demanded that women and men be held to the same standards in public life. Her political theatrics brought the topic of women's sexuality into the public arena, shocking critics, galvanizing supporters, and finally locking opposing camps into bitter conflict over sexuality and women's rights in marriage. A woman who surrendered her own privacy, whose life was grist for the mills of a sensation-mongering press, she made the exposure of others' secrets a powerful tool of social change. Woodhull's political ambitions became inseparable from her sexual nonconformity, yet her skill in using contemporary media kept her revolutionary ideas continually before her peers. In this way Woodhull contributed to long-term shifts in attitudes about sexuality and the slow liberation of marriage and other social institutions. Using contemporary sources such as images from the "sporting news," Frisken takes a fresh look at the heyday of this controversial women's rights activist, discovering Woodhull's previously unrecognized importance in the turbulent climate of Radical Reconstruction and making her a useful lens through which to view the shifting sexual mores of the nineteenth century.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aFeminists
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 0 _aSuffragists
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 0 _aWomen
_xSuffrage
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 4 _aAmerican Studies.
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
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653 _aAmerican History.
653 _aAmerican Studies.
653 _aGender Studies.
653 _aWomen's Studies.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201987
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812201987
856 4 2 _3Cover
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999 _c198086
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