Regulating Passion
Subtitle: Sexuality and Patriarchal Rule in Massachusetts, 1700-1830
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 25, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780199928422
Description: "Sexuality was critical to how individuals experienced, learned, and contested their place in early America. Regulating Passion shows the sweeping changes that affected the social and political morass centered on sexual behavior during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Massachusetts -- even as patriarchy remained important to those configurations of power. Charting the government's and society's management of sexuality, Kelly A. Ryan uncovers the compelling stories of the individuals charged with sexual crimes and how elites hoped to contain and exploit 'illicit' sexual behavior" -- publisher's description.
Notes: Source title: Regulating Passion: Sexuality and Patriarchal Rule in Massachusetts, 1700-1830
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Patriarchy and Sexuality
pagenum: 1; label: I
title: Sexuality and Patriarchy in the Late Colonial Era; label: 1
title: "The Slaves of Hymen" White Women's Sexuality and the Insistence on Marriage
pagenum: 13; label: 2
title: "The Passions are Against You": White Men's Sexual Reputations
pagenum: 35; label: 3
title: Racialized Patriarchy: Indians and African-Americans in the Patriarchal Ideal
pagenum: 58; label: II
title: Challenging the Patriarchal Order; label: 4
title: Hardy Men and Rustic Women: Sexualizing the Politics of the Imperial Crisis
pagenum: 85; label: 5
title: Dealing with Independence: The Patriarchal Gaze and Crisis in Racialized Patriarchy
pagenum: 104; label: 6
title: Making Chaste Citizens: Sexual Regulation and Reputation in the Early Republic
pagenum: 125; label: 7
title: Seduced Women and Designing Men: Refashioning the Sexual and Gendered Self
pagenum: 149; label: 8
title: Scrutinizing Sexuality: Charity and the Patriarchal Gaze
pagenum: 176; title: Conclusion: "Nothing but our rights": Patriarchy, Sexual Reputation, and Power
pagenum: 199