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.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: BRUMBERG, JOAN JACOBS,; BULLOUGH, BONNIE,; BULLOUGH, VERN,; CAMPBELL, D’ANN,; CANNON, CHARLES A.,; CHAUNCEY, GEORGE,; COTT, NANCY F.,; DAVIS, MADELINE,; DEGLER, CARL N.,; DUBOIS, ELLEN CAROL,; DUNFEY, JULIE,; FADERMAN, LILLIAN,; FREEDMAN, ESTELLE Β.,; GADLIN, HOWARD,; GORDON, LINDA,; HINDUS, MICHAEL S.,; KENNEDY, ELIZABETH LAPOVSKY,; KUSHNER, HOWARD I.,; LUNBECK, ELIZABETH,; McGOVERN, JAMES R.,; ROTHMAN, ELLEN K.,; RUGGLES, STEVEN,; RUPP, LEILA J.,; SAHLI, NANCY,; SCHLOSSMAN, STEVEN,; SIMMONS, CHRISTINA,; SMITH, DANIEL SCOTT,; SMITH-ROSENBERG, CARROLL,; WALLACH, STEPHANIE,
• HerausgeberIn: Cott, Nancy F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : K. G. Saur, , [2012]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: History of Women in the United States ; Volume 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (577 p.)

Table of Contents

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 -- Copyright Information -- Index