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History of Women in the United States : Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. Volume 10, Sexuality and Sexual Behavior / ed. by Nancy F. Cott.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: History of Women in the United States ; Volume 10Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : K. G. Saur, [2012]Copyright date: ©1993Edition: Reprint 2012Description: 1 online resource (577 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783598414640
  • 9783110976342
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.409
LOC classification:
  • HQ1410
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Sexuality and Sexual Behavior -- Premarital Pregnancy in America 1640–1971: An Overview and Interpretation -- Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790–1850 -- The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America -- What Ought to Be and What Was: Women’s Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century -- Private Lives and Public Order: A Critical View of the History of Intimate Relations in the U.S. -- Women’s Life in Utopia: The Shaker Experiment in Sexual Equality Reappraised – 1810 to 1860 -- Sex and Self-Control: Middle-Class Courtship in America, 1770–1870 -- Seeking Ecstasy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure in Nineteenth-Century Feminist Sexual Thought -- “Living the Principle” of Plural Marriage: Mormon Women, Utopia, and Female Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century -- Fallen Women: The Inmates of the Magdalen Society Asylum of Philadelphia, 1836–1908 -- “Ruined” Girls: Changing Community Responses to Illegitimacy in Upstate New York, 1890–1920 -- The Awesome Power of Sex: The Polemical Campaign against Mormon Polygamy -- Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America: Behavior, Ideology, and Politics -- Smashing: Women’s Relationships before the Fall -- The Morbidification of Love between Women by 19th-century Sexologists -- From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: Medicine and the Changing Conceptualization of Female Deviance -- “Imagine My Surprise”: Women’s Relationships in Historical Perspective -- The American Woman’s Pre-World War I Freedom in Manners and Morals -- Lesbian Magazine Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century -- The Crime of Precocious Sexuality: Female Juvenile Delinquency in the Progressive Era -- Nineteenth-Century Sexuality and the “Sexual Revolution” of the Progressive Era -- “A New Generation of Women”: Progressive Psychiatrists and the Hypersexual Female -- Companionate Marriage and the Lesbian Threat -- Lesbianism in the 1920s and 1930s: A Newfound Study -- Oral History and the Study of Sexuality in the Lesbian Community: Buffalo, NY, 1940–1960 -- Copyright Information -- Index
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i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Sexuality and Sexual Behavior -- Premarital Pregnancy in America 1640–1971: An Overview and Interpretation -- Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790–1850 -- The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America -- What Ought to Be and What Was: Women’s Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century -- Private Lives and Public Order: A Critical View of the History of Intimate Relations in the U.S. -- Women’s Life in Utopia: The Shaker Experiment in Sexual Equality Reappraised – 1810 to 1860 -- Sex and Self-Control: Middle-Class Courtship in America, 1770–1870 -- Seeking Ecstasy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure in Nineteenth-Century Feminist Sexual Thought -- “Living the Principle” of Plural Marriage: Mormon Women, Utopia, and Female Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century -- Fallen Women: The Inmates of the Magdalen Society Asylum of Philadelphia, 1836–1908 -- “Ruined” Girls: Changing Community Responses to Illegitimacy in Upstate New York, 1890–1920 -- The Awesome Power of Sex: The Polemical Campaign against Mormon Polygamy -- Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America: Behavior, Ideology, and Politics -- Smashing: Women’s Relationships before the Fall -- The Morbidification of Love between Women by 19th-century Sexologists -- From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: Medicine and the Changing Conceptualization of Female Deviance -- “Imagine My Surprise”: Women’s Relationships in Historical Perspective -- The American Woman’s Pre-World War I Freedom in Manners and Morals -- Lesbian Magazine Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century -- The Crime of Precocious Sexuality: Female Juvenile Delinquency in the Progressive Era -- Nineteenth-Century Sexuality and the “Sexual Revolution” of the Progressive Era -- “A New Generation of Women”: Progressive Psychiatrists and the Hypersexual Female -- Companionate Marriage and the Lesbian Threat -- Lesbianism in the 1920s and 1930s: A Newfound Study -- Oral History and the Study of Sexuality in the Lesbian Community: Buffalo, NY, 1940–1960 -- Copyright Information -- Index

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