 | Victoria Woodhull''s Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America Subjects: Woodhull Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin) 1838–1927; Feminists -- United States -- Biography; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Suffragists -- United States -- Biography; Using contemporary sources Frisken takes a fresh look at the heyday of this controversial women's rights activist, discovering Woodhull's previously unrecognized importance in the turbulent climate of Radical Reconstruction and making her a useful lens through which to view the shifting sexual mores of the nineteenth century. Amanda Frisken teaches American studies at the State University of New York, Old Westbury. |
