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Against sex : identities of sexual restraint in early America / Kara M. French.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- French, Kara M., author.
- Series:
- Gender and American culture.
- North Carolina scholarship online.
- Gender and American culture
- North Carolina scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakers--United States--History--19th century.
- Shakers.
- Catholic Church--United States--History--19th century.
- Catholic Church.
- Sex customs--United States--History--19th century.
- Sex customs.
- Sexual ethics--United States--History--19th century.
- Sexual ethics.
- Sexual abstinence--Religious aspects.
- Sexual abstinence.
- Grahamites.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource 233 p..)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- How much sex should a person have? With whom? What do we make of people who choose not to have sex at all? As present as these questions are today, they were subjects of intense debate in the early American republic. In this richly textured history, Kara French investigates ideas about, and practices of, sexual restraint to better understand the sexual dimensions of American identity in the antebellum United States. French considers three groups of Americans-Shakers, Catholic priests and nuns, and followers of sexual reformer Sylvester Graham - whose sexual abstinence provoked almost as much social, moral, and political concern as the idea of sexual excess.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Vinegar-Faced Sisters and Male Monsters: The Gender of Sexual Restraint
- Chapter Two. Identities of Sexual Restraint
- Chapter Three. Breaking and Remaking the Family
- Chapter Four. Alterative Extracts: Sexual Restraint in the Antebellum Marketplace
- Chapter Five. Performing Sexual Restraint
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9798890859570
- 9781469662169
- 1469662167
- OCLC:
- 1249475809
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