Hard Bargains

by Hirshman, Linda R.; Larson, Jane E.

• ISBN13: 9780195096644
• ISBN10: 0195096649
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr

Summary

The authors take a forthright and level-headed look at all aspects of one of the biggest controversies in contemporary American society--heterosexual sex--and deliver a radically new perspective on the sexual lives of women and men.

Author Biography

Linda Hirshman is Allen Berenson Distinguished visiting Professor at Brandeis University. She lives in Cave Creek, Arizona, and Falmouth, Massachusetts. Jane Larson is Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
1 Introduction: Sex in Public	1	(14)
Part 1 The Origins of Hard Bargains	15	(64)
2 The Possibilities of Theory	15	(16)
3 Rediscovering Early Worlds	31	(28)
4 American Beginnings	59	(20)
Part 2 The Rise and Fall of the Republic of Virtue	79	(76)
5 Female Virtue and Public Order	79	(24)
6 Challenging the Republic of Virtue	103	(18)
7 Equal Freedom versus Equal Commitment	121	(34)
Part 3 The Rise and Fall of Libertinism	155	(96)
8 The Origins of Libertinism	155	(26)
9 The Law Catches Up	181	(30)
10 The Libertine Regime	211	(12)
11 There's No Such Thing As Free Love	223	(28)
Part 4 Hard Bargains	251	(54)
12 The Rules of the Game	251	(16)
13 Hard Bargains	267	(34)
14 Conclusion	301	(4)
Index	305