Sex among the rabble: an intimate history of gender & power in the age of revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830
In: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
The sexual terrain of colonial and revolutionary Philadelphia -- A springboard to revolution : runaway wives and self-divorce -- The fruits of nonmarital unions : sex in the urban pleasure culture -- The pleasures and powers of reading : eroticization of popular print and discursive interpretations of sex -- Sex in the city in the age of democratic revolutions -- To be "free and independent" : sex among the revolutionary rabble -- Sex and the politics of gender in the age of revolution -- Normalizing sex in the nineteenth century : the assault on nonmarital sexuality -- Through our bodies : prostitution and the cultural reconstruction of nonmarital sexuality -- Through our souls : the benevolent reform of sexual transgressors -- Through our children : bastardy comes under attack
In: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Englisch
Univ. of North Carolina Press
0807856754, 9780807856758, 9780807830048, 0807830046
420 S
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