Sex and sexuality in early America / edited by Merril D. Smith.

Other author Smith, Merril D., 1956-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : New York University Press, ©1998.
Descriptionix, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Sex customs--America. --History.
America--History. --To 1810.

Contents Sexual violation in the conquest of the Americas / Stephanie Wood -- Native American sexuality in the eyes of the beholders / Gordon Sayre -- Her master's voice : gender, speech, and gendered speech in the narrative of the captivity of Mary White Rowlandson / Steven Neuwirth -- The regulation of sex in seventeenth-century Massachusetts : the quarterly court of Essex County vs. Priscilla Willson and Mr. Samuel Appleton / Else L. Hambleton -- Sarah Prentice and the immortalists : sexuality, piety, and the body in eighteenth-century New England / Erik Seeman -- William Byrd's "flourish" : the sexual cosmos of a southern planter / Richard Godbeer -- The sexual life of an eighteenth-century Jamaican slave overseer / Trevor Burnard -- Sex, sexuality, and social control in the eighteenth-century Leewards Islands / Natalie A. Zacek -- Soldiers in love : patrolling the gendered frontiers of the Early Republic / Wayne Bodle -- "Imperfect disclosures" : cross-dressing and containment in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond / Heather Smyth -- "Insidious murderers of female innocence" : representations of masculinity in the seduction tales of the the late eighteenth century / Rodney Hessinger -- "The fruit of unlawful embraces" : sexual transgression and madness in early American sentimental fiction / Karen A. Weyler.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 315-331) and index.
LCCN 98019767
ISBN0814780679 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN0814780687 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ18.A37 S48 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold