Sexual Revolution In Early America
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Sexual Revolution In Early America
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Author : Richard Godbeer
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2004-02-18
Sexual Revolution In Early America written by Richard Godbeer and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-18 with History categories.
An Alternate Selection of the History Book Club In 1695, John Miller, a clergyman traveling through New York, found it appalling that so many couples lived together without ever being married and that no one viewed "ante-nuptial fornication" as anything scandalous or sinful. Charles Woodmason, an Anglican minister in South Carolina in 1766, described the region as a "stage of debauchery" in which polygamy was "very common," "concubinage general," and "bastardy no disrepute." These depictions of colonial North America's sexual culture sharply contradict the stereotype of Puritanical abstinence that persists in the popular imagination. In Sexual Revolution in Early America, Richard Godbeer boldly overturns conventional wisdom about the sexual values and customs of colonial Americans. His eye-opening historical account spans two centuries and most of British North America, from New England to the Caribbean, exploring the social, political, and legal dynamics that shaped a diverse sexual culture. Drawing on exhaustive research into diaries, letters, and other private papers, as well as legal records and official documents, Godbeer's absorbing narrative uncovers a persistent struggle between the moral authorities and the widespread expression of popular customs and individual urges. Godbeer begins with a discussion of the complex attitude that the Puritans had toward sexuality. For example, although believing that sex could be morally corrupting, they also considered it to be such an essential element of a healthy marriage that they excommunicated those who denied "conjugal fellowship" to their spouses. He next examines the ways in which race and class affected the debate about sexual mores, from anxieties about Anglo-Indian sexual relations to the sense of sexual entitlement that planters held over their African slaves. He concludes by detailing the fundamental shift in sexual culture during the eighteenth century towards the acceptance of a more individualistic concept of sexual desire and fulfillment. Today's moral critics, in their attempts to convince Americans of the social and spiritual consequences of unregulated sexual behavior, often harken back to a more innocent age; as this groundbreaking work makes clear, America's sexual culture has always been rich, vibrant, and contentious.
Make Love Not War
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Author : David Allyn
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-23
Make Love Not War written by David Allyn and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-23 with History categories.
When Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl hit bookstores in 1962, the sexual revolution was launched and there was no turning back. Soon came the pill, the end of censorship, the advent of feminism, and the rise of commercial pornography. Our daily lives changed in an unprecedented time of sexual openness and experimentation. Make Love, Not War is the first serious treatment of the complicated events, ideas, and personalities that drove the sexual revolution forward. Based on first-hand accounts, diaries, interviews, and period research, it traces changes in private lives and public discourse from the fearful fifties to the first tremors of rebellion in the early sixties to the heady heyday of the revolution. Bringing a fresh perspective to the turbulence of these decades, David Allyn argues that the sexual revolutionaries of the '60s and '70s, by telling the truth about their own histories and desires, forced all Americans to re-examine the very meaning of freedom. Written with a historian's attention to nuance and a novelist's narrative drive, Make Love, Not War is a provocative, vivid, and thoughtful account of one of the most captivating episodes in American history. Also includes an 8-page insert.
Sex And The Eighteenth Century Man
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Author : Thomas A. Foster
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
Release Date : 2006
Sex And The Eighteenth Century Man written by Thomas A. Foster and has been published by Beacon Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
A pioneering new investigation of sex and manhoodWith few exceptions, sex is noticeably absent from popular histories chronicling colonial and Revolutionary America. Moreover, it is rarely associated specifically with early American men. This is in part because sex and family have traditionally been associated with women, while politics and business are the historic province of men. But Thomas Foster turns this conventional view on its head. Through the use of court records, newspapers, sermons, and private papers from Massachusetts, he vividly shows that sex -the behaviors, desires, and identities associated with eroticism -was a critical component of colonial understanding of the qualities considered befitting for a man.Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Manbegins by examining how men, as heads of households, held ultimate responsibility for sex -not only within their own marriages but also for the sexual behaviors of dependents and members of their households. Foster then examines the ways sex solidified bonds in the community, including commercial ties among men, and how sex operated in courtship and social relations with women. Starkly challenging current views about the development of sexuality in America, the book details early understandings of sexual identity and locates a surprising number of stereotypes until now believed to have originated a century later, among them the black rapist and the unmanly sodomite, figures that serve to reinforce cultural norms of white male heterosexuality.As this engrossing and surprising study shows, we cannot understand manliness today or in our early American past without coming to terms with the oft-hidden relationship between sex and masculinity.
The First Sexual Revolution
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Author : Kevin White
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1993
The First Sexual Revolution written by Kevin White and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
White contends that The Great American Man was constructed in the 1920s as a response to the appearance of The Flapper and to the same crumbling of Victorian culture that freed her. Previously, men were expected to acquire character and become Christian gentlemen; since then, they have been expected to acquire personality and to become a performing self. Paper edition (9258- 8), $15. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The First Sexual Revolution The Emergence Of Male Heterosexuality In Modern America
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Author : Kevin White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
The First Sexual Revolution The Emergence Of Male Heterosexuality In Modern America written by Kevin White and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with categories.
Sexual Revolutions
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Author : G. Hekma
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-05-13
Sexual Revolutions written by G. Hekma and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-13 with History categories.
Sexual Revolutions explores the sexual revolution of the late twentieth century in several European countries and the USA by engaging with themes from sexual freedom and abortion to pornography and sexual variation. This work discusses the involvement of youth, feminism, left, liberalism, arts, science and religion in the process of sexual change.
Sex And Sexuality In Early America
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Author : Merril D. Smith
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1998-09
Sex And Sexuality In Early America written by Merril D. Smith and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09 with History categories.
Sex and sexuality have always been the subject of much attention, both scholarly and popular. Yet, accounts of the early years of the United States tend to overlook the importance of their influence on the shaping of American culture. This book addresses this neglected topic with original research covering a wide spectrum, from sexual behavior to sexual perceptions and imagery, and more.
Long Before Stonewall
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Author : Thomas C. Foster
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2007-07
Long Before Stonewall written by Thomas C. Foster and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07 with History categories.
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Rape And Sexual Power In Early America
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Author : Sharon Block
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2012-12-01
Rape And Sexual Power In Early America written by Sharon Block and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-01 with History categories.
In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which colonial and early republican Anglo-American society was based. Block analyzes the legal, social, and cultural implications of more than nine hundred documented incidents of sexual coercion and hundreds more extralegal commentaries found in almanacs, newspapers, broadsides, and other print and manuscript sources. Highlighting the gap between reports of coerced sex and incidents that were publicly classified as rape, Block demonstrates that public definitions of rape were based less on what actually happened than on who was involved. She challenges conventional narratives that claim sexual relations between white women and black men became racially charged only in the late nineteenth century. Her analysis extends racial ties to rape back into the colonial period and beyond the boundaries of the southern slave-labor system. Early Americans' treatment of rape, Block argues, both enacted and helped to sustain the social, racial, gender, and political hierarchies of a New World and a new nation.
The Origins Of Sex
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Author : Faramerz Dabhoiwala
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-02-02
The Origins Of Sex written by Faramerz Dabhoiwala and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-02 with History categories.
Nowadays we believe that consenting adults have the freedom to do what they like with their own bodies. We publicise and celebrate sex; we discuss it endlessly; we are obsessed with the sex lives of celebrities. We think it wrong that in other cultures people suffer for their sexual orientation, that women are treated as second-class citizens, or that adulterers are put to death. Yet until quite recently our own society was like this too. For most of western history, all sex outside marriage was illegal, and the church, the state, and ordinary people all devoted huge efforts to suppressing and punishing it. This was a central feature of Christian civilization, one that had steadily grown in importance since the early middle ages. In this brilliant, ground-breaking book, Faramerz Dabhoiwala describes in dramatic detail how, between 1600 and 1800, this entire world view was shattered by revolutionary new ideas - that sex is a private matter; that morality cannot be imposed by force; that men are more lustful than women. Henceforth, the private lives of both sexes were to be endlessly broadcast and debated, in a rapidly expanding universe of public media: newspapers, pamphlets, journals, novels, poems, and prints. The Origins of Sex shows that the creation of this modern culture of sex was a central part of the Enlightenment, intertwined with the era's major social, political and intellectual trends. It helped create a new model of Western civilization, whose principles of privacy, equality, and freedom of the individual remain distinctive to this day.