| Description |
319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Critical perspectives on the past |
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Critical perspectives on the past.
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| Contents |
Passion and power / Kathy Peiss, Christina Simmons -- Sexual matters / Robert A. Padgug -- Life of a citizen in the hands of a woman / Marybeth Hamilton Arnold -- Charity girls and city pleasures / Kathy Peiss -- Movements of affirmation / Jeffrey Weeks -- From sexual inversion to homosexuality / George Chauncey, Jr. -- We were a little band of willful women / Judith Schwarz, Kathy Peiss, Christina Simmons -- Black community and the birth control movement / Jessie M. Rodrique -- Modern sexuality and the myth of victorian repression / Christina Simmons -- Venerial disease / Elizabeth Fee -- Uncontrolled desires / Estelle B. Freedman -- Homosexual menace / John D'Emilio -- Reproduction of butch-fem roles / Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madeline Davis -- Mass market romance / Ann Barr Snitow -- (De)constructing pornography / Daphne Read -- Gay villian, gay hero / Robert A. Padgug |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Sex customs -- United States -- History.
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| Author |
Padgug, Robert A.
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Peiss, Kathy Lee.
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Simmons, Christina, 1948-
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| LC no. |
88021670 |
| ISBN |
0877225966 (alk. paper) |
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0877226377 |
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