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Sex and Sexuality in Early America (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,640
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Sex and Sexuality in Early America (Hardcover, New): Merril D. Smith

Sex and Sexuality in Early America (Hardcover, New)

Merril D. Smith

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What role did sexual assault play in the conquest of America? How did American attitudes toward female sexuality evolve, and how was sexuality regulated in the early Republic?

Sex and sexuality have always been the subject of much attention, both scholarly and popular. Yet, accounts of the early years of the United States tend to overlook the importance of their influence on the shaping of American culture. Sex and Sexuality in Early America addresses this neglected topic with original research covering a wide spectrum, from sexual behavior to sexual perceptions and imagery. Focusing on the period between the initial contact of Europeans and Native Americans up to 1800, the essays encompass all of colonial North America, including the Caribbean and Spanish territories.

Challenging previous assumptions, these essays address such topics as rape as a tool of conquest; perceptions and responses to Native American sexuality; fornication, bastardy, celibacy, and religion in colonial New England; gendered speech in captivity narratives; representations of masculinity in eighteenth- century seduction tales, the sexual cosmos of a southern planter, and sexual transgression and madness in early American fiction. The contributors include Stephanie Wood, Gordon Sayre, Steven Neuwirth, Else L. Hambleton, Erik R. Seeman, Richard Godbeer, Trevor Burnard, Natalie A. Zacek, Wayne Bodle, Heather Smyth, Rodney Hessinger, and Karen A. Weyler.

General

Imprint: New York University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 1998
First published: September 1998
Editors: Merril D. Smith
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 220
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-8067-1
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Sexual behaviour
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN: 0-8147-8067-9
Barcode: 9780814780671

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