Title: Major problems in the history of American sexuality : documents and essays /
Authors: Peiss, Kathy Lee.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Sex United States History.; Sex customs United States History; Sex in popular culture United States History.; Sex history.; Homosexuality history; Sex Work history.; Contraception history; Continental Population Groups history; Sexually Transmitted Diseases history; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome history
Contents: 1. Sexuality in history. The social construction of sexuality / Jeffrey Weeks ; Essentialism and queer history / Rictor Norton ; Reading the silences around sexuality / John D. Wrathall -- 2. Sexual cultures and encounters in the New World. Baron Lahontan describes love and marriage among the Hurons, 1703 ; English trader John Lawson describes native sexuality in North Carolina, 1709 ; Father Joseph-Francois Lafitau praises native male friendships, 1733 ; Father Luis Jayme attacks sexual abuse of indigenous women, 1772 ; Columbus meets Pocahontas in the American South / Theda Perdue ; Sexual violence in the Spanish conquest of California / Antonia I. Castaneda / Interracial unions in French Louisiana / Jennifer M. Spear --^