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.
- ISBN10 080142559X
- ISBN13 9780801425592
- Publish Date 29 April 1992
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 11 January 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cornell University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 237
- Language English