History of women in the United States. 10, Sexuality and sexual behavior : historical articles on women's lives and activities / edited with an introduction by Nancy F. Cott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cott, Nancy F., editor, writer of foreword.

Series:

History of Women in the United States ; Volume 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Sexual behavior--United States--History.

Women.

Sex--United States--History.

Sex.

Women--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (591 pages)

Edition:

Reprint 2012

Place of Publication:

Munich, [Germany] : K. G. Saur, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Sexuality and Sexual Behavior".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Series Preface

Introduction

Sexuality and Sexual Behavior

Premarital Pregnancy in America 1640-1971: An Overview and Interpretation / SMITH, DANIEL SCOTT / HINDUS, MICHAEL S.

Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790-1850 / COTT, NANCY F.

The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America / SMITH-ROSENBERG, CARROLL

What Ought to Be and What Was: Women's Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century / DEGLER, CARL N.

Private Lives and Public Order: A Critical View of the History of Intimate Relations in the U.S. / GADLIN, HOWARD

Women's Life in Utopia: The Shaker Experiment in Sexual Equality Reappraised - 1810 to 1860 / CAMPBELL, D'ANN

Sex and Self-Control: Middle-Class Courtship in America, 1770-1870 / ROTHMAN, ELLEN K.

Seeking Ecstasy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure in Nineteenth-Century Feminist Sexual Thought / DUBOIS, ELLEN CAROL / GORDON, LINDA

"Living the Principle" of Plural Marriage: Mormon Women, Utopia, and Female Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century / DUNFEY, JULIE

Fallen Women: The Inmates of the Magdalen Society Asylum of Philadelphia, 1836-1908 / RUGGLES, STEVEN

"Ruined" Girls: Changing Community Responses to Illegitimacy in Upstate New York, 1890-1920 / BRUMBERG, JOAN JACOBS

The Awesome Power of Sex: The Polemical Campaign against Mormon Polygamy / CANNON, CHARLES A.

Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America: Behavior, Ideology, and Politics / FREEDMAN, ESTELLE Β.

Smashing: Women's Relationships before the Fall / SAHLI, NANCY

The Morbidification of Love between Women by 19th-century Sexologists / FADERMAN, LILLIAN

From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: Medicine and the Changing Conceptualization of Female Deviance / CHAUNCEY, GEORGE

"Imagine My Surprise": Women's Relationships in Historical Perspective / RUPP, LEILA J.

The American Woman's Pre-World War I Freedom in Manners and Morals / McGOVERN, JAMES R.

Lesbian Magazine Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century / FADERMAN, LILLIAN

The Crime of Precocious Sexuality: Female Juvenile Delinquency in the Progressive Era / SCHLOSSMAN, STEVEN / WALLACH, STEPHANIE

Nineteenth-Century Sexuality and the "Sexual Revolution" of the Progressive Era / KUSHNER, HOWARD I.

"A New Generation of Women": Progressive Psychiatrists and the Hypersexual Female / LUNBECK, ELIZABETH

Companionate Marriage and the Lesbian Threat / SIMMONS, CHRISTINA

Lesbianism in the 1920s and 1930s: A Newfound Study / BULLOUGH, VERN / BULLOUGH, BONNIE

Oral History and the Study of Sexuality in the Lesbian Community: Buffalo, NY, 1940-1960 / DAVIS, MADELINE / KENNEDY, ELIZABETH LAPOVSKY

Copyright Information

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 23, 2016).

ISBN:

9783110976342

311097634X

OCLC:

1013942151