It takes the average reader 18 hours and 53 minutes to read Riotous Flesh by April Rose Haynes
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The dissertation, "Riotous Flesh: Gender, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice, 1830-1860," traces the dissemination of a profound sexual ideology and analyzes its impact on the history of gender, race, and sexuality in the United States. The most famous spokesperson identified with this ideology, Sylvester Graham (1794-1851), became an antebellum cultural icon by advocating "total abstinence" first from alcohol, then from coffee, tea, spices, and meat. He argued that stimulation produced pathology: it caused disease and incited sexual sins, the worst of which was masturbation. According to Graham and his followers, "the solitary vice" caused impotence, insanity, consumption, and death. Rather than revisit Graham's published texts, the dissertation analyzes the grassroots movement that adopted, transformed, and spread the discourse of solitary vice. With special attention to female advocates of Grahamite physiological reform, it interprets the often violent gendered and racialized conflicts that sex reform elicited.
Riotous Flesh by April Rose Haynes is 1,098 pages long, and a total of 283,284 words.
This makes it 371% the length of the average book. It also has 346% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 25 hours and 48 minutes to read Riotous Flesh aloud.
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