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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.

Series Editor's Preface

Acknowledgments

xii

About the Contributors

xiii

Introduction

(12)

PART I EARLY AMERICA

Things Fea... MORE

(32)

Introduction

``Things Fearful to Name'': Bestiality in Early America

(21)

John Murrin

Of Plymouth Plantation: the Pilgrims in America

(2)

William Bradford

Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, from 1638 to 1649

(8)

Charles J. Hoadly

Further Reading

(1)

Eroticizing the Middle Ground

(27)

Introduction

Eroticizing the Middle Ground: Anglo-Indian Relations along the Eighteenth-century Frontier

(18)

Richard Godbeer

John Rolfe to Sir Thomas Dale, April 1614

(4)

A New Voyage to Carolina

(2)

John Lawson

Quebec to Carolina in 1785-1786

(2)

Robert Hunter, Jr

Further Reading

(1)

Girling of It

(21)

Introduction

``Girling of It'' in Eighteenth-century New Hampshire

(12)

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Lois K. Stabler

Bundling: Its Origins, Progress, and Decline in America

(2)

Henry Reed Stiles

The Ladies Library

(2)

Female Policy Detected, or the Arts of a Designing Woman Laid Open

(4)

Edward Ward

Further Reading

(3)

PART II NINETEENTH CENTURY

The Psychology of Free Love

(23)

Introduction

The Psychology of Free Love: Sexuality in the Oneida Community

(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

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).

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