Sex among the Rabble An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830

Name: Sex among the Rabble An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830
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ISBN: 9780807856758

ISBN-10: 0807856754

ISBN-13: 9780807856758

Edition: 2006

Authors: Clare A. Lyons

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Placing sexual culture at the center of power relations in Revolutionary-era Philadelphia, Clare Lyons uncovers a world where runaway wives challenged their husbands' patriarchal rights and where serial and casual sexual relationships were commonplace. Reading popular representations of sex against actual behavior reveals the clash of meanings given to sex and illuminates struggles to recast sexuality in order to eliminate its subversive potential. Sexuality became the vehicle for exploring currents of liberty, freedom, and individualism in the politics of everyday life among groups of early Americans typically excluded from formal systems of governance--women, African Americans, and poor…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/27/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 1.760

Clare A. Lyons is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland.




The sexual terrain of colonial and revolutionary Philadelphia



A springboard to revolution : runaway wives and self-divorce



The fruits of nonmarital unions : sex in the urban pleasure culture



The pleasures and powers of reading : eroticization of popular print and discursive interpretations of sex



Sex in the city in the age of democratic revolutions



To be "free and independent" : sex among the revolutionary rabble



Sex and the politics of gender in the age of revolution



Normalizing sex in the nineteenth century : the assault on nonmarital sexuality



Through our bodies : prostitution and the cultural reconstruction of nonmarital sexuality



Through our souls : the benevolent reform of sexual transgressors



Through our children : bastardy comes under attack


Conclusion and reflection



Establishing class



Bastardy totals



Mothers' requests for out-relief bastardy child support



Sexual transgressions