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C o n t en t s Acknowledgments vii i n t r o d u c t i o n The Unlikely Rhetorical Allies of Science and Free-Love Feminism 1 1 . t h e s e a s o n o f b a t t l e The Rhetoric of Free-Love Feminism in Nineteenth-Century America 15 2 . e v o l u t i o n a r y t h e o r y (R)Evolutionary Rhetorics in the Free-Love Movement 56 3 . p h y s i o l o g y Rewriting the Body and Sexual Desire 79 4 . b a c t e r i o l o g y Marriage as a “Diseased” Institution 112 5 . e m b r y o l o g y Toward a Eugenic Warrant for Free-Love Feminism 141 6 . h e r e d i t y The Disappearing Reform Warrant 170 c o n c l u s i o n Historiography and Feminist Uses of Eugenics 209 Notes 221 Bibliography 235 Index 253 ...