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Regulating passion : sexuality and patriarchal rule in Massachusetts, 1700-1830 / Kelly A. Ryan.
LIBRA HQ18.U5 R93 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ryan, Kelly A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex--Massachusetts--History--18th century.
- Sex.
- Sex--Massachusetts--History--19th century.
- Sexual ethics--Massachusetts--History--18th century.
- Sexual ethics.
- Manners and customs.
- Social conditions.
- Moral conditions.
- History.
- Massachusetts--Moral conditions.
- Massachusetts.
- Massachusetts--Social conditions--18th century.
- Massachusetts--Social life and customs--18th century.
- Social history.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 264 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Sexuality and Patriarchy in the Late Colonial Era
- 1 "The Slaves of Hymen": White Women's Sexuality and the Insistence on Marriage 13
- 2 "The Passions Are against You": White Men's Sexual Reputations 35
- 3 Racialized Patriarchy: Indians and African Americans in the Patriarchal Ideal 58
- Part 2 Challenging the Patriarchal Order
- 4 Hardy Men and Rustic Women: Sexualizing the Politics of the Imperial Crisis 85
- 5 Dealing with Independence: The Patriarchal Gaze and the Crisis in Racialized Patriarchy 104
- 6 Making Chaste Citizens: Sexual Regulation and Reputation in the Early Republic 125
- 7 Seduced Women and Designing Men: Refashioning the Sexual and Gendered Self 149
- 8 Scrutinizing Sexuality: Charity and the Patriarchal Gaze 176.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199928422
- 0199928428
- OCLC:
- 849740916
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