The ungendered terrain of good health: Mary Gove Nichols’s rewriting of the diseased institution of marriage

Separate Spheres No More: Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 117-142

  Keetley, Dawn ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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