Sexuality and Sexual Behavior

Nachdruck 2012
ISBN: 978-3-598-41464-0
Verlag: De Gruyter Saur

Buch, Englisch, Band Volume 10, 577 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1023 g

Reihe: History of Women in the United States

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cott, Nancy F.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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