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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

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Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 3385425379

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To Kiss the Chastening Rod

To Kiss the Chastening Rod

Author: Geoffrey M. Goshgarian

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2019-04-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1501738607

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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.