Documenting Intimate matters : primary sources for a history of sexuality in America / edited by Thomas A. Foster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Foster, Thomas A.

D'Emilio, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex customs--United States--History--Sources.

Sex customs.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

xv, 237 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Summary:

"Over time, sexuality in America has changed dramatically. Frequently redefined and often subject to different systems of regulation, it has been used as a means of control; it has been a way to understand ourselves and others, and it has been at the center of fierce political storms, including some of the most crucial changes in civil rights in the last decade. Edited by Thomas A. Foster, Documenting Intimate Matters features seventy-two documents that collectively highlight the broad diversity inherent in the history of American sexuality. Complementing the third edition of Intimate Matters, by John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman--often hailed as the definitive survey of sexual history in America--the multiple narratives presented by these documents reveal the complexity of this subject in US history. The historical moments captured in this volume will show that, contrary to popular misconception, the history of sexuality is not a simple story of increased freedoms and sexual liberation, but an ongoing struggle between change and continuity."--Publisher information.

Contents:

Massachusetts body of liberties (1641)

The midwife's book (1671) / Jane Sharp

To my dear and loving husband (1678) / Anne Bradstreet

Witchcraft trial of Catherina Lujan, New Mexico (1708)

John Lawson on Native American women, North Carolina (1709)

Diary of William Byrd, Virginia planter (1710-1712)

Unchast practices (1716)

Chassin to Father Bobe, Louisiana (1722)

The Boston News-Letter on "sodomitical clubs" (1726)

Slander and reputation in North Carolina Court Cases (1747, 1749)

John Smith, Quaker, courts Hannah Logan (1748)

Keeping a house of fornication (1754)

Life and dying speech of Arthur, a Negro man (1768)

Depositions in the case of Sarah Muckamugg, Rhode Island (1752-1774)

Documenting Philadelphia women's self-divorce in the Pennsylvania Gazette and Packet (1780s-1790s)

Lecture to young men (1838) / Sylvester Graham

Louisa Picquet, the octoroon; or Inside views of southern domestic life (1840s) / Louisa Picquet interviewed by H. Mattison

Abraham Lincoln's correspondence with Joshua Speed (1842)

New York Sporting Whip (1843)

"The lynching of a Mexican woman in California" (1851)

"Indian concubines," the National Era (1858)

Willie Ann Grey, letter to her husband (1866)

Civil war love letter (1864)

Criminal abortion (1868) / Horatio R. Storer

Male continence (1872) / John Humphrey Noyes

Diary of Frederick Ryman (1884)

Women's social purity meeting (1888)

Traps for the young (1883) / Anthony Comstock

Satan in society (1890) / Nicholas F. Cooke

Mosher survey (1892) / Dr. Clelia Mosher

Tokology (1898) / Alice B. Stockham

Red record (1895) / Ida B. Wells

Philadelphia Negro (1899) / W.E.B. DuBois

Spirit of youth (1909) / Jane Addams

Mexican American ballads (corridos)

Pacific northwest male prostitution/truancy (1913)

Commercialized prostitution in New York City (1913) / George J. Kneeland

Young working girls (1913) / Robert A. Woods, Albert J. Kennedy

White slave traffic (1911) / O. Edward Janney

"Humanity"; or, what every father, mother, boy and girl should know (1915) / Louis L. Krauss

Sex knowledge for women and girls (1917) / William J. Robinson

Birth control laws: shall we keep them or abolish them? (1926) / Mary Ware Dennett

"Mad pleasure" in True romances (1924) / Bernarr Macfadden

"Kitchen man" (1929) / Bessie Smith

United States Motion Picture Production Code (1930)

World War II War Department pamphlet on venereal disease (1940)

Black metropolis: a study of Negro life in a northern city (1945) / St. Clair Drake, Horace R. Cayton

Employment of homosexuals and other sex perverts (1950)

Letters to Alfred Kinsey (1953)

Letter to the Society for Humane Abortion (1966)

Mattachine Society : Stonewall Rebellion (1969)

"The pill : genocide or liberation?" (1969) / Toni Cade

"The myth of the vaginal orgasm" (1970) / Anne Koedt

"Rape: an act of terror" (1971) / Barbara Mehrhof, Pamela Kearon

Transvestite and transsexual liberation (1971)

"Chicanas and abortion" (1972) / Beverly Padilla

Joy of sex (1972) / Alex Comfort

Address to Democratic National Convention (1980) / Melvin Boozer

"I can't believe you want to die" (1987) / Larry Kramer

"A change of heart" (1987) / Laura Alexander

Pornography and civil rights (1988)

"Chicana lesbians: fear and loathing in the Chicano community" (1991) / Carla Trujillo

"African American women in defense of ourselves" (1991)

"Date rape" Rape Zine (1990s)

Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) (1996)

Starr report (1998)

"How many licks?" (2000) / Lil' Kim

"Adventures in child-rearing: the sexual life of a child growing up with Down syndrome" / Susan Fitzmaurice

Lawrence v. Texas (2003)

"Congressional report on abstinence-only education" (2004)

Federal marriage amendment (2006)

"Sexual offenders team checks sex offenders' homes" (2007).

Notes:

"A primary-source companion to John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman's 'Intimate Matters'."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-234) and index.

Related Work:

D'Emilio, John. Intimate matters.

ISBN:

9780226257464

0226257460

9780226257471

0226257479

OCLC:

783150212

Publisher Number:

99972017210