Androgynous democracy : modern American literature and the dual-sexed body politic /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shaheen, Aaron
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=353457
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "who need be afraid of the merge?"
  • "The social dusk of that mysterious democracy": race, sexology, and the modern woman in Henry James's postbellum America
  • Commercial androgyny: reformulating the modern liberal subject in Frank Norris and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Reactionary and radical androgyny: two southerners assess the depression-era body politic
  • Race, gender, and democratic space in W.E.B. Du Bois and Marita Bonner
  • Epilogue: androgyny, fascism, and beyond.