| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
xx, 446 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Part 1. The reproductive matrix, 1600-1800 -- 1. Cultural diversity in the Era of Settlement -- 2. Family life and the regulation of deviance -- 3. Seeds of change -- Part 2. Divided passions, 1780-1900 -- 4. Within the family -- 5. Race and sexuality -- 6. Outside the family -- 7. Sexual politics -- Part 3. Toward a new sexual order, 1880-1930 -- 8. "Civilized morality" under stress -- 9. Crusades for sexual order -- 10. Breaking with the past -- Part 4. The rise and fall of sexual liberalism 1920 to the present -- 11. Beyond reproduction -- 12. Redrawing the boundaries -- 13. Sexual revolutions -- 14. The sexualized society -- 15. The contemporary political crisis. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [419]-431) and index. |
| Subject |
Sex customs -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Freedman, Estelle B., 1947-
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| ISBN |
0226142647 alkaline paper |
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