History of Women in the United States : : Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. / Volume 10, : Sexuality and Sexual Behavior / / ed. by Nancy F. Cott.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : K. G. Saur, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Reprint 2012
Language:English
Series:History of Women in the United States ; Volume 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (577 p.)
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Other title:i-iv --
Contents --
Series Preface --
Introduction --
Sexuality and Sexual Behavior --
Premarital Pregnancy in America 1640–1971: An Overview and Interpretation --
Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790–1850 --
The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America --
What Ought to Be and What Was: Women’s Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century --
Private Lives and Public Order: A Critical View of the History of Intimate Relations in the U.S. --
Women’s Life in Utopia: The Shaker Experiment in Sexual Equality Reappraised – 1810 to 1860 --
Sex and Self-Control: Middle-Class Courtship in America, 1770–1870 --
Seeking Ecstasy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure in Nineteenth-Century Feminist Sexual Thought --
“Living the Principle” of Plural Marriage: Mormon Women, Utopia, and Female Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century --
Fallen Women: The Inmates of the Magdalen Society Asylum of Philadelphia, 1836–1908 --
“Ruined” Girls: Changing Community Responses to Illegitimacy in Upstate New York, 1890–1920 --
The Awesome Power of Sex: The Polemical Campaign against Mormon Polygamy --
Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America: Behavior, Ideology, and Politics --
Smashing: Women’s Relationships before the Fall --
The Morbidification of Love between Women by 19th-century Sexologists --
From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: Medicine and the Changing Conceptualization of Female Deviance --
“Imagine My Surprise”: Women’s Relationships in Historical Perspective --
The American Woman’s Pre-World War I Freedom in Manners and Morals --
Lesbian Magazine Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century --
The Crime of Precocious Sexuality: Female Juvenile Delinquency in the Progressive Era --
Nineteenth-Century Sexuality and the “Sexual Revolution” of the Progressive Era --
“A New Generation of Women”: Progressive Psychiatrists and the Hypersexual Female --
Companionate Marriage and the Lesbian Threat --
Lesbianism in the 1920s and 1930s: A Newfound Study --
Oral History and the Study of Sexuality in the Lesbian Community: Buffalo, NY, 1940–1960 --
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Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783110976342
9783110635669
DOI:10.1515/9783110976342
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Nancy F. Cott.