Sex and Sexuality in Early America
By: edited by Merril D. Smith.
Contributors: Smith, Merril D., 1956-
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Sex customs -- America -- History; America -- History -- To 1810
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-331) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sexual violation in the conquest of the Americas / Stephanie Wood
pagenum: 9; title: Native American sexuality in the eyes of the beholders / Gordon Sayre
pagenum: 35; title: Her master's voice : gender, speech, and gendered speech in the narrative of the captivity of Mary White Rowlandson / Steven Neuwirth
pagenum: 55; title: The regulation of sex in seventeenth-century Massachusetts : the quarterly court of Essex County vs. Priscilla Willson and Mr. Samuel Appleton / Else L. Hambleton
pagenum: 89; title: Sarah Prentice and the immortalists : sexuality, piety, and the body in eighteenth-century New England / Erik Seeman
pagenum: 116; title: William Byrd's "flourish" : the sexual cosmos of a southern planter / Richard Godbeer
pagenum: 135; title: The sexual life of an eighteenth-century Jamaican slave overseer / Trevor Burnard
pagenum: 163; title: Sex, sexuality, and social control in the eighteenth-century Leewards Islands / Natalie A. Zacek
pagenum: 190; title: Soldiers in love : patrolling the gendered frontiers of the Early Republic / Wayne Bodle
pagenum: 217; title: "Imperfect disclosures" : cross-dressing and containment in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond / Heather Smyth
pagenum: 240; title: "Insidious murderers of female innocence" : representations of masculinity in the seduction tales of the the late eighteenth century / Rodney Hessinger
pagenum: 262; title: "The fruit of unlawful embraces" : sexual transgression and madness in early American sentimental fiction / Karen A. Weyler.
pagenum: 283