Sex and sexuality in early America / edited by Merril D. Smith. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Merril D., 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex customs--America--History.

Sex customs.

America--History--To 1810.

America.

Sex customs--History--America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 341 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Sexual violation in the conquest of the Americas / Stephanie Wood

Native American sexuality in the eyes of the beholders, 1535-1710 / Gordon Sayre

Her master's voice : gender, speech, and gendered speech in the narrative of the captivity of Mary White Rowlandson / Steven Neuwirth

The regulation of sex in seventeenth-century Massachusetts : the quarterly court of Essex County vs. Priscilla Willson and Mr. Samuel Appleton / Else L. Hambleton

Sarah Prentice and the immortalists : sexuality, piety, and the body in eighteenth-century New England / Erik R. Seeman

William Byrd's "flourish" : the sexual cosmos of a southern planter / Richard Godbeer

The sexual life of an eighteenth-century Jamaican slave overseer / Trevor Burnard

Sex, sexuality, and social control in the eighteenth-century Leewards Islands / Natalie A. Zacek

Soldiers in love : patrolling the gendered frontiers of the Early Republic / Wayne Bodle

"Imperfect disclosures" : cross-dressing and containment in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond / Heather Smyth

"Insidious murderers of female innocence" : representations of masculinity in the seduction tales of the late eighteenth century / Rodney Hessinger

"The fruit of unlawful embraces" : sexual transgression and madness in early American sentimental fiction / Karen A. Weyler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-331) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-585-48061-3