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1 online resource (321 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction: The Puritan Origins of American Sex; Wigglesworth, Mather, Starr: Witch-Hunts and GeneralWickedness in Public; A Sodom Within: Historicizing Puritan Homoeroticsin the Diary of Michael Wigglesworth; ""Remember Me"": The Wonders of an Invisible World-Sex, Patriarchy, and Paranoia in Early America; Uncleanliness Is Next to Godliness: Sexuality, Salvation, andthe Early American Woman's Execution Narrative; The Puritan Eyeball, or, Sexing the Transcendent |
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Ejaculating Tongues: Poe, Mather, and the Jewish PenisNow You Shall See How a Slave Was Made a Man:Gendering Frederick Douglass's Struggles with Christianity; Enslaving Passions: White Male Sexuality and theEvasion of Race; The Other Woman's Sphere: Nuns, Prostitutes, and the Medicalization of Middle-Class Domesticity; Christian Maidens and Heathen Monks: OratoricalSeduction at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions; Americanization of a ""Queer Fellow"": PerformingJewishness and Sexuality in Abraham Cahan's The Riseof David Levinsky, with a Footnote on the (Monica)Lewinsky'ed Nation |
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Desert of the Heart: Jane Rule's Puritan OutingSinners in the Hands of an Angry Gardner; ""Down Here in Paradise"": Toni Morrison's Americas; Notes on Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
From witch trials to pickaxe murderers, from brothels to convents, and from slavery to Toni Morrison's Paradise, these essays provide fascinating and provocative insights into our sexual and religious conventions and beliefs |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Radel, Nicholas F
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Zaborowska, Magdalena J
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| ISBN |
9781136692291 |
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1136692290 |
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