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Desiring Revolution – Second Wave Feminism & the Rewriting of Twentieth–Century American Sexual Thought 1920 to 1982: Second-Wave Feminism and the … of Twentieth-Century American Sexual Thought
Author(s): Jane Gerhard (Author)
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Publication Date: 4 May 2001
- Language: English
- Print length: 244 pages
- ISBN-10: 0231112041
- ISBN-13: 9780231112048
Book Description
— Women’s Review of Books
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This fascinating book enriches history, women’s/gender/sexuality studies, feminist theory, American studies curricula, and the libraries of advanced scholars. Gerhard deserves great credit for her skillful application of contemporary debates toward a creative interpretation of feminist and sexuality history.” — Judith A. Allen, Journal of American History “Gerhard delves into the history of expert ideas about appropriate reproductive and sexual behavior. Late nineteenth-century women activists, suffragists, and settlement-house workers challenged the idea of separate gendered spheres and showed they could live independently of men… Gerhard does a nice job of showing how the early radical feminists wanted to reconstruct heterosexuality to make it more focused on women’s pleasure.” — Barbara Ryan, NWSA Journal “Gerhard does a wonderful job of analyzing and situating the texts she has selected…This is a story well worth reading, teaching, and expanding.” — Deborah Cohler, Journal of the History of Sexuality
About the Author
Jane Gerhard is lecturer in history and literature at Harvard University.
