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Book Title: The Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality in 19th. Century America Book Author: G. J. Barker-Benfield (Author) Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Routledge; Subsequent edition (October 14, 1999) Language: English ISBN-10: 0415925002 ISBN-13: 978-0415925006 Book Description Publication Date: October 14, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0415925002 | ISBN-13: 978-0415925006 | Edition: Subsequent Now a classic in the field, The Horrors of the Half-Known Life is an important foundational text in the construction of masculinity, female identity, and the history of midwivery.  Reviews A 'classic'-a wonderful work.–Michael Kimmel, author of Manhood of America A truly pioneering study . . . that is likely to gain an entirely new readership.. – Bram Dijkstra, author of Evil Sisters: The Threat of Female Sexuality and the Cult of Manhood It tells a very important part of women's history-shocking and dreadful . . . when it was first published, it was ahead of its time.–Robbie Davis-Floyd, coeditor of Cyborg Babies About the Author G. J. Barker-Benfield is Professor of History and Women's Studies at SUNY-Albany. He is the coeditor with Catherine Clinton of Portraits of American Women and author of The Culture of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Sharing WidgetAll Comments |
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