| Type of Document |
Master's Thesis |
| Author |
McCann, Brandy Renee
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| Author's Email Address |
bmccann@vt.edu |
| URN |
etd-05042005-163234 |
| Title |
Reading Alfred C. Kinsey: Sexuality and Discourse in Mid-Century America |
| Degree |
Master of Arts |
| Department |
English |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Hausman, Bernice L. |
Committee Chair |
| Collier, James H. |
Committee Member |
| Mollin, Marian B. |
Committee Member |
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| Keywords |
- Women Writers
- Feminism
- Kinsey
- Female Sexuality
- Sex Education
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| Date of Defense |
2005-04-18 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
This project concerns various 20th-century rhetorical strategies for sexual liberation. First, I examine the work of Alfred C. Kinsey through the theories of Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault. In the second chapter I look at Kinsey’s Female volume and argue that he uses the mid-century concern for marriage as a strategy for sexual liberation. Next, I trace the ways in which four female, post-Kinsey writers use Kinsey (explicitly or implicitly) for their own particular strategies for sexual liberation. Finally, my conclusion asks how we can develop an effective strategy for this new century.
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