Rereading sex
Subtitle: battles over sexual knowledge and suppression in nineteenth-century America
By: Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz.
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780375701863
Subjects: Sex customs -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Sexual ethics -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-492) and index.
Table of contents: title: Vernacular sexual culture, commercial erotica, and obscene libel; title: Free thought, sexual knowledge, and Evangelical Christianity; title: Blasphemy, birth control, and obscenity; title: Masturbation scare and the rise of reform physiology; title: New York and the emergence of sporting culture; title: Moral reformers; title: Sporting weeklies and obscene libel; title: Abortion; title: Obscenity in the city; title: Placing sex at the core of being; title: Blurring the boundaries; title: Y.M.C.A. of New York, the Civil War, and Anthony Comstock; title: Sex talk in the open; title: Victoria Woodhull; title: Comstock Law; title: Comstock's crusade; title: Convictions; title: Constitutionality and resistance : Bennett, Benedict, and Blatchford.