Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man
Subtitle: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: September 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780807050385
Subjects: Gender studies; Social History; c 1700 to c 1800; Sexual behavior; Sex Roles (Sociological Aspects); United States History (Specific Aspects); History; History - U.S.; United States - Colonial Period; History: American; USA; Human Sexuality; History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775); Men's Studies - General; 18th century; Men; Social conditions; United States
Description: "With few exceptions, sex is noticeably absent from popular histories chronicling colonial and Revolutionary America. Moreover, it is rarely associated specifically with early American men. This is in part because sex and family have traditionally been associated with women, while politics and business are the historic province of men. But Thomas Foster turns this conventional view on its head. Through the use of court records, newspapers, sermons, and private papers from Massachusetts, he shows that sex - the behaviors, desires, and identities associated with eroticism - was a critical component of colonial understanding of the qualities considered befitting for a man."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: ix; label: I
title: Household; label: 1
title: "He Is Not a Man, That Hath Not a Woman"
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: Sex and the Shattering of Household Order
pagenum: 23; label: II
title: Community; label: 3
title: Rape and Seduction: Masculinity, Misogyny, and Male Sexuality
pagenum: 53; label: 4
title: Sex and the Community of Men
pagenum: 77; label: III
title: Sexualities; label: 5
title: "Half-men": Bachelors, Effeminacy, and Sociability
pagenum: 101; label: 6
title: "When Day and Night Together Move": Men and Cross-Cultural Sex
pagenum: 129; label: 7
title: "The Paths of Monstrous Joy"
pagenum: 155; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 175