Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America

Name: Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America
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ISBN: 9780807050392

ISBN-10: 0807050393

ISBN-13: 9780807050392

Edition: 2007

Authors: Thomas A. Foster

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A pioneering new investigation of sex and manhood With few exceptions, sex is noticeably absent from popular histories chronicling colonial and Revolutionary America. Using court records, newspapers, sermons, and private papers from Massachusetts, Thomas Foster vividly shows that sex-the behaviors, desires, and identities associated with eroticism-was a critical com¬ponent of colonial understanding of the qualities considered beﬁtting for a man. Starkly challenging current views about the development of sexuality in America, the book details early understandings of sexual identity and locates a surprising number of stereotypes until now believed to have originated a century later. As this…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 9/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Introduction



Household



"He Is Not a Man, That Hath Not a Woman"



Sex and the Shattering of Household Order



Community



Rape and Seduction: Masculinity, Misogyny, and Male Sexuality



Sex and the Community of Men



Sexualities



"Half-men": Bachelors, Effeminacy, and Sociability



"When Day and Night Together Move": Men and Cross-Cultural Sex



"The Paths of Monstrous Joy"


Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index