To kiss the chastening rod : domestic fiction and sexual ideology in the American Renaissance
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To kiss the chastening rod : domestic fiction and sexual ideology in the American Renaissance
Cornell University Press, 1992
Available at 22 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
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