American Sexual Histories - 01 edition

Reis, Elizabeth :

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).

"Elizabeth Reis's American Sexual Histories is a highly readable and utterly valuable resource for students and for the generally curious. This book traces the ever-changing fears, obsessions, and sometimes surprisingly tolerant attitudes Americans have held on the subject of sexual practice from the Puritans to 'liberation' in the late twentieth century."

--Nancy Isenberg, University of Tulsa

"American Sexual Histories is that all-too-rare achievement: a book of first-rate scholarship that encourages equally first-rate teaching. It is an extremely valuable book for students, teachers, and scholars."

--Peggy Pascoe, University of Oregon

"This is a wonderful resource. Reis's clear introductions, thought-provoking scholarly articles, and exciting primary sources combine to create an indispensable collection for undergraduate classes."

--Sharon Block, University of California, Irvine

Blackwell Publishers Web Site, May, 2001

Acknowledgements.
About the Contributors.
Introduction.

Part I: Early America.

1. "Things Fearful to Name": Bestiality in Early America: John Murrin.
2. Eroticizing the Middle Ground: Anglo-Indian Sexual Relations along the Eighteenth-Century Frontier: Richard Godbeer.
3. "Girling of it" in Eighteenth-Century New Hampshire: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Lois K. Stabler.

Part II: Nineteenth Century.

4. The Psychology of Free Love: Sexuality in the Oneida Community: Lawrence Foster.
5. Ministerial Misdeeds: The Onderdonk Trial and Sexual Harassment in the 1840s: Patricia Cline Cohen.
6. White Women, Black Men, and Adultery in the Antebellum South: Martha Hodes.

Part III: Early Twentieth Century.

7. Hysteria: The Revolt of the Good Girl: Elizabeth Lunbeck.
8. Christian Brotherhood or Sexual Perversion? Homosexual Identities and the Construction of Sexual Boundaries in the World War I Era: George Chauncey, Jr.
9. About to Meet her Maker: Women, Doctors, Dying Declarations, and the State's Investigation of Abortion, Chicago, 1867-1940: Leslie J. Reagan.
10. Contraceptive Consumers: Gender and the Political Economy of Birth Control in the 1930s: Andrea Tone.

Part IV: Modern America.

11. Mixing Bodies and Cultures: The Meaning of America's Fascination with Sex between "Orientals" and "Whites": Henry Yu.
12. The Sexualized Woman: The Lesbian, The Prostitute, and the Containment of Female Sexuality in Postwar America: Donna Penn.
13. The Population Bomb and the Sexual Revolution: Toward Choice: Rickie Solinger.
14. Sex Change and the Popular Press: Historical Notes on Transsexuality in the United States, 1930-1955: Joanne Meyerowitz.

Further Reading.
Index.