To Kiss the Chastening Rod

by G.M. Goshgarian

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080142559X
• ISBN13: 9780801425592
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"