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Book SynopsisThe second edition of American Sexual Histories features an updated collection of sixteen articles and their corresponding primary sources that investigate issues related to human sexuality in America from the colonial era to the present day.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors x
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Elizabeth Reis
Part I Early America 9
1 Bodies in Doubt: Intersex in Early America 11
Elizabeth Reis
Documents:
1.1 Thomas/Thomasine Hall, 1629 25
1.2 James Parsons, A Mechanical and Critical Enquiry into the Nature of Hermaphrodites, 1741 27
1.3 Jane Sharp, The Midwives Book, 1671 29
2 Transgressive Male Sex in Early America 34
Thomas A. Foster
Documents:
2.1 Bestiality Cases in New Haven, Connecticut, 1638–49 47
2.2 "Trunil Him well brother," 1751 52
3 Indian Women, French Women, and the Regulation of Sex 56
Jennifer M. Spear
Documents:
3.1 Journal of Diron d’Artaguiette, 1722–3 73
3.2 Duclos to Pontchartrain, December 25, 1715 75
3.3 Lamothe Cadillac to Pontchartrain, October 26, 1713 77
3.4 Louisiana's Code Noir (1724) 79
4 Rape and Sexual Power in Early America 82
Sharon Block
Documents:
4.1 Testimony against David Clark, 1764 95
4.2 Ephraim Wheeler's Rape Trial, 1805 96
5 The Overflowing of Friendship 101
Richard Godbeer
Documents:
5.1 Letters of Robert Treat Paine, 1749 114
5.2 Letters of Daniel Webster, 1801–5 116
6 Sex Among the Rabble 122
Clare A. Lyons
Documents:
6.1 Philadelphia Magdalen Society, Minutes, 1807-10 134
6.2 Maria; or, the Seduction, 1796 137
6.3 The Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen-House, 1760 139
7 White Women, Black Men, and Adultery in the Antebellum South 147
Martha Hodes
Document:
7.1 Lewis Bourne Divorce Petition, 1823-5 161
8 Obscenity, Sex Education, and Medical Democracy in the Antebellum United States 165
April Haynes
Documents:
8.1 Frederick Hollick, The Marriage Guide, 1850 177
8.2 Letters to the Editor about Dr. Frederick Hollick, 1845 183
Part II Modern America 187
9 Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America 189
Peggy Pascoe
Documents:
9.1 "Aoki – Engaged to Daughter of Prelate," 1909 202
9.2 "Emery Girl Ready to Marry the Japanese," 1909 204
9.3 "Aoki Expects to Wed in Portland," 1909 205
9.4 "Whose Business Is It?" 1909 206
9.5 "A Disgusting Spectacle," 1909 206
9.6 "Aoki's Inamorata Flits Northward," 1909 207
10 Hysteria: The Revolt of the "Good Girl" 211
Elizabeth Lunbeck
Document:
10.1 The Case of Miss A, 1913-14 224
11 When Abortion Was Illegal 230
Leslie J. Reagan
Documents:
11.1 A Maryland Abortionist Gets No Pardon, 1904 243
11.2 Dying Declarations Obtained in Abortion Case as Condition to Rendering Aid, 1909 244
11.3 Comments of "Esther E.," 1920 245
12 Contraceptive Consumers 247
Andrea Tone
Documents:
12.1 Advertisements for Lysol, 1932, 1933 260
12.2 Facts and Frauds in Women's Hygiene, 1936 262
12.3 What Do the American Women Think about Birth Control? 1938 264
12.4 The Dilex Speech, 1938 268
13 Lesbian Pulp Novels and US Lesbian Identity 270
Yvonne Keller
Documents:
13.1 Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness, 1928 285
13.2 Tereska Torres, Women's Barracks, 1950 288
13.3 Ann Bannon, Beebo Brinker, 1962 291
14 Sex Change and the Popular Press 294
Joanne Meyerowitz
Documents:
14.1 Girl Changes into Man, 1936 309
14.2 Psychopathia Transexualis, 1949 311
14.3 New Sex Switches: Behind the Sensational Headlines Loom Unpleasant Medical Facts, 1954 316
14.4 I Want to Become a Woman, 1956 317
15 The Population Bomb and the Sexual Revolution 320
Rickie Solinger
Documents:
15.1 The Slavery of Sex Freedom: America’s Moral Crisis, 1957 335
15.2 Are We Still Stereotyping the Unmarried Mother? 1960 338
15.3 Population Crisis: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Foreign
Aid Expenditures of the Committee on Government Operations, 1965 341
16 Marketing Safe Sex 345
Jennifer Brier
Documents:
16.1 "Can We Talk?" 1983 361
16.2 "Information for People of Color, 1987" 363
16.3 Promoting Condoms for Gay Men, 1987 364
Source Acknowledgments 368
Index 372
