{"product_id":"riotous-flesh-april-r-haynes-9780226284620","title":"Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America","description":"Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even death. \u003ci\u003eRiotous Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e explores women's leadership of those movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and political effects, showing how a desire to transform the politics of sex created unexpected alliances between groups that otherwise had very different goals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As April R. Haynes shows, the crusade against female masturbation was rooted in a generally shared agreement on some major points: that girls and women were as susceptible to masturbation as boys and men; that \"self-abuse\" was rooted in a lack of sexual information; and that sex education could empower women and girls to master their own bodies. Yet the groups who made this education their goal ranged widely, from \"ultra\" utopians and nascent feminists to black abolitionists. \u003ci\u003eRiotous Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e explains how and why diverse women came together to popularize, then institutionalize, the condemnation of masturbation, well before the advent of sexology or the professionalization of medicine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e April R. Haynes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022628462X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226284620\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2016","brand":"April R. Haynes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913426665727,"sku":"9780226284620","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_7b40880d-62f2-4c40-bc2f-f07f733c138a.jpg?v=1680620349","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/riotous-flesh-april-r-haynes-9780226284620","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}