Title American sexual histories / edited by Elizabeth Reis

Published Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2001

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Description xv, 416 pages ; 23 cm Series Blackwell readers in American social and cultural history ; 6 Blackwell readers in American social and cultural history ; 6 Contents 1. Early America: Things fearful to name - Eroticizing the middle ground - Girling of it -- 2. Nineteenth century: The psychology of free love - Ministerial needs - White women, black men, and adultery in the antebellum South -- 3. Early twentieth century: Hysteria - Christian brotherhood or sexual perversion? - About to meet her maker - Contraceptive consumers -- 4. Modern America: Mixing bodies and cultures - The sexualized woman - The population bomb and the sexual revolution - Sex change and the popular press Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Sex customs -- United States -- History. Sex customs -- United States -- History -- Sources. Author Reis, Elizabeth, 1958- LC no. 00060796 ISBN 0631220801 cased 063122081X paperback

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