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Sexual revolution in early America
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- Creator
- Richard Godbeer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002
- Physical Details
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- xii, 430 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780801875670, 0801868009, 0801875676, 9780801875676, 0801878918, 9780801878916, 9780801868009
- OCLC
- ocn923191031, ocm46866189
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Sex, Marriage, and Moral Order in Early America -- 1. "Chambering and Wantonising": Popular Sexual Mores in Seventeenth-Century New England -- 2. "A Complete Body of Divinity": The Puritans and Sex -- 3. "Pregnant with the Seeds of All Sin": Regulating Illicit Sex in Puritan New England -- 4. "Living in a State of Nature": Sex, Marriage, and Southern Degenerates -- 5. The Dangerous Allure of "Copper-Coloured Beauties": Anglo-Indian Sexual Relations -- 6. "The Cameleon Lover": Sex, Race, and Cultural Identity in the Colonial South -- 7. "Under the Watch": The Metamorphosis of Sexual Regulation in Eighteenth-Century New England -- 8. "A Hint to Young Ladies": Courtship, Sexual Danger, and Moral Agency in Revolutionary America -- 9. "Martyrdom to Venus": Sexual Freedom in Post-Independence Philadelphia