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Sex and the Civil War Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality / Judith Giesberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giesberg, Judith Ann, 1966- author.
- Series:
- Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era.
- The Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vice control--United States--History--19th century.
- Vice control.
- Sex--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Sex.
- Sexual ethics--United States--History--19th century.
- Sexual ethics.
- Social norms--United States--History--19th century.
- Social norms.
- Obscenity (Law)--United States--History--19th century.
- Obscenity (Law).
- Pornography--Law and legislation--United States--History--19th century.
- Pornography.
- Pornography--Moral and ethical aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Pornography--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Psychological aspects.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (152 pages).
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-produced erotic fiction, cartes de visite, playing cards and stereographs. A perfect storm of antebellum legal, technological and commercial developments, coupled with the concentration of men fed into armies, created a demand for, and a deluge of, pornography in the military camps. With this book, Judith Giesberg has written a study of the erotica and pornography that 19th-century American soldiers read and shared and links them to the postwar reaction to pornography and to debates about the future of sex and marriage.
- Contents:
- Lewd, wicked, scandalous: American pornography comes of age
- Storming the enemy's breastworks: Civil War courts-martial and the sexual culture of the U.S. Army camp
- True courage: Anthony Comstock and the crisis of the war
- Outraged manhood of our age: the postwar antipornography campaign.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908529-4-6
- 979-88-908529-5-3
- 1-4696-3128-8
- 1-4696-3129-6
- OCLC:
- 972092405
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