Contents
Series Preface
Introduction
Sexuality and Sexual Behavior
Premarital Pregnancy in America 1640โ1971: An Overview and Interpretation
Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790โ1850
The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America
What Ought to Be and What Was: Womenโs Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century
Private Lives and Public Order: A Critical View of the History of Intimate Relations in the U.S.
Womenโs Life in Utopia: The Shaker Experiment in Sexual Equality Reappraised โ 1810 to 1860
Sex and Self-Control: Middle-Class Courtship in America, 1770โ1870
Seeking Ecstasy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure in Nineteenth-Century Feminist Sexual Thought
โLiving the Principleโ of Plural Marriage: Mormon Women, Utopia, and Female Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century
Fallen Women: The Inmates of the Magdalen Society Asylum of Philadelphia, 1836โ1908
โRuinedโ Girls: Changing Community Responses to Illegitimacy in Upstate New York, 1890โ1920
The Awesome Power of Sex: The Polemical Campaign against Mormon Polygamy
Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America: Behavior, Ideology, and Politics
Smashing: Womenโs 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
โImagine My Surpriseโ: Womenโs Relationships in Historical Perspective
The American Womanโs 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 โSexual Revolutionโ of the Progressive Era
โA New Generation of Womenโ: 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, 1940โ1960
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