Intimate states : gender, sexuality, and governance in modern US history / edited by Margot Canaday, Nancy F. Cott, and Robert O. Self.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Canaday, Margot, author.

Cott, Nancy F., author.

Self, Robert O., 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marriage--Political aspects--United States.

Marriage.

Sex--Political aspects--United States.

Sex.

Reproduction--Political aspects--United States.

Reproduction.

Families--Political aspects--United States.

Families.

Families--Political aspects.

Sex--Political aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

356 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Summary:

"These highly readable essays unite recent scholarship on the meaning and use of state power with investigations of the history of intimate experience-marriage, sexuality, reproduction, family life-exploring the porous boundaries between public and private realms. In analyzing the relationship between state power and intimate experience in the United States from the Civil War to today, this volume makes the case that "intimate governance"-the binding of our private daily experience to the apparatus of the state-should be central to our understanding of modern American history. For the state is always with us, even in our most private, seemingly independent actions"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Reconstructing Belonging: The Thirteenth Amendment at Work in the World / Stephanie McCurry

2. The Comstock Apparatus / Jeffrey Patrick Colgan

3. Morals, Sex, Crime, and the Legal Origins of Modern American Social Police / William J. Novak

4. The Commerce (Clause) in Sex in the Life of Lucille de Saint-Andre / Grace Pena Delgado

5. "Facts Which Might Be Embarrassing": Illegitimacy, Vital Registration, and State Knowledge / Susan J. Pearson

6. Race, the Construction of Dangerous Sexualities, and Juvenile Justice / Tera Eva Agyepong

7. Eugenic Sterilization as a Welfare Policy / Molly Ladd-Taylor

8. "Land of the White Hunter": Legal Liberalism and the Shifting Racial Ground of Morals Enforcement / Anne Gray Fischer

9. Sex Panic, Psychiatry, and the Expansion of the Carceral State / Regina Kunzel

10. The Fall of Walter Jenkins and the Hidden History of the Lavender Scare / Timothy Stewart-Winter

11. The State of Illegitimacy after the Rights Revolution / Serena Mayeri

12. What Happened to the Functional Family? Defining and Defending Alternative Households Before and Beyond Same-Sex Marriage / Stephen Vider

13. Abortion and the State after Roe / Johanna Schoen

14. The Work That Sex Does / Paisley Currah.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780226794617

022679461X

9780226794754

022679475X

OCLC:

1226074058

Publisher Number:

99988393012