Regulating desire
Subtitle: from the virtuous maiden to the purity princess
By: J. Shoshanna Ehrlich
Publisher: SUNY Press, State University of New York Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781438453057
Subjects: Young women; Sexual behavior; History; Sex crimes; Seduction; Premarital sex; Sexual ethics
Description: Covers five distinct time periods in which changing social conditions generated considerable public anxiety about youthful female sexuality and examines how successive generations of reformers sought to revise the law in an effort to manage unruly desires and restore a gendered social order--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-203) and index.