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]
©1993
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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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