Fierce desires : a new history of sex and sexuality in America /
The first sweeping history of sex and sexuality in America since John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman's classic work, Intimate Matters, Rebecca L. Davis's Fierce Desires presents a story of dramatic and often surprising change. Davis's absorbing narrative takes us across four hundr...
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2024].
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Establishing order, 1600-1870 : To confound the course of nature ; Sacred possessions ; Under the husband's government ; Slavery's intimate bonds ; A woman of pleasure ; Perfect confidence and love
- Part 2. Redefining sex, 1840-1938 : Then shall they be Gods ; A typical invert ; Obscene and immoral ; Plays too stirring for a boy your age ; A society of queers
- Part 3. Solving sexual problems, 1938-2024 : Scientific methods ; Revolutionary love ; Public masturbator number one ; Irresponsible intercourse ; Sexual advances ; Family's value ; Save the children
- Coda: The ghost of Anthony Comstock.