@article{1441717,
      author = {Russell, Victoria F.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1441717},
      title = {The unsexed mind and psychological androgyny, 1790-1848 :  radicalism, reform and gender in England /},
      abstract = {This book seeks to redefine the radical debate on gender  in England between the 1790s and 1840s, examining the  little-studied concept of psychological androgyny or the  unsexed mind. Perceived often as a literary and aesthetic  motif popular in Romantic poetry, this book examines the  revival and use of this egalitarian concept on the radical  margins of Protestant non-conformism. Inspired by an ethos  of perfectibility, a close-knit community of writers,  educationalists, ministers, and scientists, called for a  revolution in the human mind. German-led advances in  science pointed not to essential sexed differences but to  naturally occurring androgynies, encouraging renewed  interest in ancient mythical and biblical tales of  androgyny. New practices were introduced into private homes  and classrooms. Gender-neutral curriculums and texts books,  mixed-sex classrooms, the promotion of androgynous  domesticity and the rejection of female vows of obedience,  were just a few practices designed to undermine arbitrary  and discriminatory cultures of patriarchy. Victoria F.  Russell is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Keele  University, UK.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88116-0},
      recid = {1441717},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume)},
}