American Sexual Histories

by Reis, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780631220817
• ISBN10: 063122081X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-16
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

American Sexual Histories is a first-rate collection of fourteen articles investigating human sexuality in America from the colonial period to the modern day. Contains fourteen essays by leading scholars investigating American sexual history from colonial times to the modern day. Includes general and sectional introductions, primary documents, questions for students, and further reading lists Covers the most crucial topics explored in sexual history including reproductive issues, sexual practices, relationships, gender roles and sexual identity.

Author Biography

Elizabeth Reis teaches history and women's studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England (1997) and the editor of Spellbound: Women and Witchcraft in America (1998).

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface	x
Acknowledgments	xii
About the Contributors	xiii
Introduction	1	(12)
PART I EARLY AMERICA
Things Fearful to Name	13	(32)
Introduction
``Things Fearful to Name'': Bestiality in Early America	14	(21)
John Murrin
Of Plymouth Plantation: the Pilgrims in America	35	(2)
William Bradford
Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, from 1638 to 1649	37	(8)
Charles J. Hoadly
Further Reading	44	(1)
Eroticizing the Middle Ground	45	(27)
Introduction
Eroticizing the Middle Ground: Anglo-Indian Relations along the Eighteenth-century Frontier	46	(18)
Richard Godbeer
John Rolfe to Sir Thomas Dale, April 1614	64	(4)
A New Voyage to Carolina	68	(2)
John Lawson
Quebec to Carolina in 1785-1786	70	(2)
Robert Hunter, Jr
Further Reading	71	(1)
Girling of It	72	(21)
Introduction
``Girling of It'' in Eighteenth-century New Hampshire	73	(12)
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Lois K. Stabler
Bundling: Its Origins, Progress, and Decline in America	85	(2)
Henry Reed Stiles
The Ladies Library	87	(2)
Female Policy Detected, or the Arts of a Designing Woman Laid Open	89	(4)
Edward Ward
Further Reading	90	(3)
PART II NINETEENTH CENTURY
The Psychology of Free Love	93	(23)
Introduction
The Psychology of Free Love: Sexuality in the Oneida Community	94	(15)
Lawrence Foster
History of American Socialisms	109	(1)
John Humphrey Noyes
Male Continence	110	(6)
John Humphrey Noyes
Further Reading	114	(2)
Ministerial Misdeeds	116	(29)
Introduction
Ministerial Misdeeds: the Onderdonk Trial and Sexual Harassment in the 1840s	117	(17)
Patricia Cline Cohen
Trial of the Right Rev. Benjamin T. Onderdonk, D.D., Bishop of New York	134	(10)
De Darkie's Comic Al-Me-Nig	144	(1)
Further Reading	144	(1)
White Women, Black Men, and Adultery in the Antebellum South	145	(26)
Introduction
Adultery: Dorothea Bourne and Edmond	146	(19)
Martha Hodes
Lewis Bourne Divorce Petition	165	(6)
Further Reading	168	(3)
PART III EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
Hysteria	171	(27)
Introduction
Hysteria: the Revolt of the ``Good Girl''	172	(18)
Elizabeth Lunbeck
The Case of Miss A	190	(8)
L.E. Emerson
Further Reading	196	(2)
Christian Brotherhood or Sexual Perversion?	198	(29)
Introduction
Christian Brotherhood or Sexual Perversion? Homosexual Identites and the Construction of Sexual Boundaries in the World War I Era	199	(18)
George Chauncey, Jr
Alleged Immoral Conditions and Practices at the Naval Training Station, Newport, Rhode Island	217	(4)
The Intersexes: a History of Similisexualism	221	(3)
Edward Irenaeus Prime Stevenson
Sexual Perversion, Satyriasis, and Nymphomania	224	(3)
G. Frank Lydston
Further Reading	226	(1)
About to Meet Her Maker	227	(23)
Introduction
``About to Meet Her Maker'': Women, Doctors, Dying Declarations, and the State's Investigation of Abortion, Chicago, 1867-1940	228	(18)
Leslie J. Reagan
A Maryland Abortionist Gets No Pardon	246	(1)
Dying Declarations Obtained in Abortion Case as Condition to Rendering Aid	247	(1)
Comments of ``Esther E''	248	(2)
Further Reading	249	(1)
Contraceptive Consumers	250	(33)
Introduction
Contraceptive Consumers: Gender and the Political Economy of Birth Control in the 1930s	251	(18)
Andrea Tone
Advertisements for Lysol	269	(2)
Facts and Frauds in Women's Hygiene	271	(2)
Rachel Lynn Palmer
Sarah K. Greenberg
What Do the American Women Think about Birth Control?	273	(5)
Henry F. Pringle
The Accident of Birth	278	(1)
Further Reading	279	(4)
PART IV MODERN AMERICA
Mixing Bodies and Cultures	283	(27)
Introduction
Mixing Bodies and Cultures: the Meaning of America's Fascination with Sex between ``Orientals'' and ``Whites''	284	(15)
Henry Yu
A Stanford Girl Weds a Chinese	299	(2)
My Oriental Husbands	301	(3)
Mrs Emma Fong Kuno
Why Japanese and Americans Should Not Intermarry	304	(2)
Intermarriage: Standpoint and Tentative Questionnaire - Confidential	306	(3)
Further Reading	309	(1)
The Sexualized Woman	310	(32)
Introduction
The Sexualized Woman: the Lesbian, the Prostitute, and the Containment of Female Sexuality in Postwar America	311	(16)
Donna Penn
Variations in Sexual Behavior: a Psychodynamic Study of Deviations in Various Expressions of Sexual Behavior	327	(3)
Frank Caprio
I am a Homosexual Woman	330	(4)
Jane. McKinnon
The Detective	334	(5)
James Mills
Beebo Brinker	339	(3)
Ann Bannon
Further Reading	341	(1)
The Population Bomb and the Sexual Revolution	342	(34)
Introduction
The Population Bomb and the Sexual Revolution: Toward Choice	343	(22)
Rickie Solinger
The Slavery of Sex Freedom: America's Moral Crisis	365	(3)
Howard Whitman
Are We Still Stereotyping the Unmarried Mother?	368	(3)
Rose Bernstein
Population Crisis: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Foreign Aid Expenditures of the Committee on Government Operations	371	(5)
Further Reading	374	(2)
Sex Change and the Popular Press	376	(34)
Introduction
Sex Change and the Popular Press: Historical Notes on Transsexuality in the United States, 1930-1955	377	(21)
Joanne Meyerowitz
Girl Changes into Man	398	(3)
Psychopathia Transexualis	401	(5)
Dr D.O. Cauldwell
New Sex Switches: Behind the Sensational Headlines Loom Unpleasant Medical Facts	406	(2)
I Want to Become a Woman	408	(2)
Further Reading	409	(1)
Index	410