Sexuality and Sexual Behavior

Nancy F. Cott

• Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9783598414640
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110976342
• Topic: Commerce
• Subtopic: Commerce Général

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Table of contents

• Contents
• Series Preface
• Introduction
• Sexuality and Sexual Behavior
• Premarital Pregnancy in America 1640–1971: An Overview and Interpretation
• Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790–1850
• The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America
• What Ought to Be and What Was: Women’s Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century
• Private Lives and Public Order: A Critical View of the History of Intimate Relations in the U.S.
• Women’s Life in Utopia: The Shaker Experiment in Sexual Equality Reappraised – 1810 to 1860
• Sex and Self-Control: Middle-Class Courtship in America, 1770–1870
• Seeking Ecstasy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure in Nineteenth-Century Feminist Sexual Thought
• “Living the Principle” of Plural Marriage: Mormon Women, Utopia, and Female Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century
• Fallen Women: The Inmates of the Magdalen Society Asylum of Philadelphia, 1836–1908
• “Ruined” Girls: Changing Community Responses to Illegitimacy in Upstate New York, 1890–1920
• The Awesome Power of Sex: The Polemical Campaign against Mormon Polygamy
• Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America: Behavior, Ideology, and Politics
• Smashing: Women’s Relationships before the Fall
• The Morbidification of Love between Women by 19th-century Sexologists
• From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: Medicine and the Changing Conceptualization of Female Deviance
• “Imagine My Surprise”: Women’s Relationships in Historical Perspective
• The American Woman’s Pre-World War I Freedom in Manners and Morals
• Lesbian Magazine Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century
• The Crime of Precocious Sexuality: Female Juvenile Delinquency in the Progressive Era
• Nineteenth-Century Sexuality and the “Sexual Revolution” of the Progressive Era
• “A New Generation of Women”: Progressive Psychiatrists and the Hypersexual Female
• Companionate Marriage and the Lesbian Threat
• Lesbianism in the 1920s and 1930s: A Newfound Study
• Oral History and the Study of Sexuality in the Lesbian Community: Buffalo, NY, 1940–1960
• Copyright Information
• Index