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Book SynopsisFourteen essays examine the unexpected relationships between government power and intimate life in the last 150 years of United States history.
Trade Review"Intimate States is a stunning achievement, challenging conventional thinking that sharply divides public from private; sex and gender from politics; identity from material concerns. In its breadth and depth, originality, and cohesiveness, Intimate States also manages to avoid the usual pitfalls of edited volumes; while far-ranging, it offers a single and coherent argument of profound importance."-- "Deborah Dinner, Emory University"
Table of ContentsIntroduction Margot Canaday, Nancy F. Cott, and Robert O. Self 1: Reconstructing Belonging: The Thirteenth Amendment at Work in the World Stephanie McCurry 2: The Comstock Apparatus Jeffrey Escoffier, Whitney Strub, and Jeffrey Patrick Colgan 3: Morals, Sex, Crime, and the Legal Origins of Modern American Social Police William J. Novak 4: The Commerce (Clause) in Sex in the Life of Lucille de Saint-André Grace Peña Delgado 5: “Facts Which Might Be Embarrassing”: Illegitimacy, Vital Registration, and State Knowledge Susan J. Pearson 6: Race, the Construction of Dangerous Sexualities, and Juvenile Justice Tera Eva Agyepong 7: Eugenic Sterilization as a Welfare Policy Molly Ladd-Taylor 8: “Land of the White Hunter”: Legal Liberalism and the Shifting Racial Ground of Morals Enforcement Anne Gray Fischer 9: Sex Panic, Psychiatry, and the Expansion of the Carceral State Regina Kunzel 10: The Fall of Walter Jenkins and the Hidden History of the Lavender Scare Timothy Stewart-Winter 11: The State of Illegitimacy after the Rights Revolution Serena Mayeri 12: What Happened to the Functional Family? Defining and Defending Alternative Households Before and Beyond Same-Sex Marriage Stephen Vider 13: Abortion and the State after Roe Johanna Schoen 14: The Work That Sex Does Paisley Currah Afterword: Frugal Governance, Family Values, and the Intimate Roots of Neoliberalism Brent Cebul Acknowledgments Contributors Index
