Taming Passion for the Public Good : : Policing Sex in the Early Republic / / Mark E. Kann.
“Kann's latest tour de force explores the ambivalence, during the founding of our nation, about whether political freedom should augur sexual freedom. Tracing the roots of patriarchal sexual repression back to revolutionary America, Kann asks highly contemporary questions about the boundaries b...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 In the Shadow of Patriarchal Authority
- 2 Resilient Patriarchal Authority
- 3 The Need to Police Sex
- 4 Policing Impassioned Men
- 5 Policing Women’s Sex Lives
- 6 Policing Prostitution
- 7 The Patriarchal Core of Liberalism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author