Table of Contents
i-iv Contents Series Preface Introduction Sexuality and Sexual Behavior Premarital Pregnancy in America 1640–1971: An Overview and Interpretation Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790–1850 The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America What Ought to Be and What Was: Women’s Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century Private Lives and Public Order: A Critical View of the History of Intimate Relations in the U.S. Women’s Life in Utopia: The Shaker Experiment in Sexual Equality Reappraised – 1810 to 1860 Sex and Self-Control: Middle-Class Courtship in America, 1770–1870 Seeking Ecstasy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure in Nineteenth-Century Feminist Sexual Thought “Living the Principle” of Plural Marriage: Mormon Women, Utopia, and Female Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century Fallen Women: The Inmates of the Magdalen Society Asylum of Philadelphia, 1836–1908 “Ruined” Girls: Changing Community Responses to Illegitimacy in Upstate New York, 1890–1920 The Awesome Power of Sex: The Polemical Campaign against Mormon Polygamy Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America: Behavior, Ideology, and Politics Smashing: Women’s Relationships before the Fall The Morbidification of Love between Women by 19th-century Sexologists From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: Medicine and the Changing Conceptualization of Female Deviance “Imagine My Surprise”: Women’s Relationships in Historical Perspective The American Woman’s Pre-World War I Freedom in Manners and Morals Lesbian Magazine Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century The Crime of Precocious Sexuality: Female Juvenile Delinquency in the Progressive Era Nineteenth-Century Sexuality and the “Sexual Revolution” of the Progressive Era “A New Generation of Women”: Progressive Psychiatrists and the Hypersexual Female Companionate Marriage and the Lesbian Threat Lesbianism in the 1920s and 1930s: A Newfound Study Oral History and the Study of Sexuality in the Lesbian Community: Buffalo, NY, 1940–1960 Copyright Information Index