The Masculine Woman in America, 1890-1935 examines how the suffrage movement's efforts to secure social and political independence for women were translated by a fearful society into a movement of unnatural masculinized women and dangerous female sexual inverts. Scrutinizing depictions of the masculine woman in literature and the popular press, Laura L. Behling explicates the literary, artistic, and rhetorical strategies used to eliminate the sexually inverted woman: punishing her by imprisonment or death; rescuing her into heterosexuality; subverting her through parody; or removing her from...
The Masculine Woman in America, 1890-1935 examines how the suffrage movement's efforts to secure social and political independence for women were tran...
