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The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America Greta LaFleur.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- LaFleur, Greta, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sexual ethics--United States--History.
- Sexual ethics.
- Sex customs--United States--History.
- Sex customs.
- Sex--United States--History.
- Sex.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Ultimately, The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America not only rewrites all dominant scholarly narratives of eighteenth-century sexual behavior but poses a major intervention into queer theoretical understandings of the relationship between sex and the subject.
- Contents:
- Introduction: toward an environmental theory of early sexuality
- The natural history of sexuality
- The complexion of sodomy
- "Egyptian lusts" and other bad habits : narrating sexual deviance and executing racial difference
- "Columbia's soil" : botanical sexuality and the colonial landscape in Herman Mann's The female review
- Vice, race, and the sexuality of space : the early nineteenth century in Boston's "Negro hill"
- Epilogue: thinking sex-without the subject
- Notes
- Works cited.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-2644-7
- OCLC:
- 1056624876
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