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Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Reis is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex (2009) and Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England (1997). Klappentext The second edition of American Sexual Histories features an updated collection of sixteen articles and their corresponding primary sources that investigate issues related to human sexuality in America from the colonial era to the present day.* Fully updated with ten new chapters, featuring recently published essays by prominent scholars in the field* Provides readers with the source documents that historians have analyzed in their articles* Allows readers to see how historians craft arguments based on available sources* Encourages readers to evaluate historical documents, test the interpretations of historians, and draw their own conclusions Zusammenfassung The second edition of American Sexual Histories features an updated collection of sixteen articles and their corresponding primary sources that investigate issues related to human sexuality in America from the colonial era to the present day. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Elizabeth Reis Part I Early America 9 1 Bodies in Doubt: Intersex in Early America 11 Elizabeth Reis Documents: 1.1 Thomas/Thomasine Hall, 1629 25 1.2 James Parsons, A Mechanical and Critical Enquiry into the Nature of Hermaphrodites , 1741 27 1.3 Jane Sharp, The Midwives Book , 1671 29 2 Transgressive Male Sex in Early America 34 Thomas A. Foster Documents: 2.1 Bestiality Cases in New Haven, Connecticut, 1638-49 47 2.2 "Trunil Him well brother," 1751 52 3 Indian Women, French Women, and the Regulation of Sex 56 Jennifer M. Spear Documents: 3.1 Journal of Diron d'Artaguiette, 1722-3 73 3.2 Duclos to Pontchartrain, December 25, 1715 75 3.3 Lamothe Cadillac to Pontchartrain, October 26, 1713 77 3.4 Louisiana's Code Noir (1724) 79 4 Rape and Sexual Power in Early America 82 Sharon Block Documents: 4.1 Testimony against David Clark, 1764 95 4.2 Ephraim Wheeler's Rape Trial, 1805 96 5 The Overflowing of Friendship 101 Richard Godbeer Documents: 5.1 Letters of Robert Treat Paine, 1749 114 5.2 Letters of Daniel Webster, 1801-5 116 6 Sex Among the Rabble 122 Clare A. Lyons Documents: 6.1 Philadelphia Magdalen Society, Minutes, 1807-10 134 6.2 Maria; or, the Seduction, 1796 137 6.3 The Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen-House, 1760 139 7 White Women, Black Men, and Adultery in the Antebellum South 147 Martha Hodes Document: 7.1 Lewis Bourne Divorce Petition, 1823-5 161 8 Obscenity, Sex Education, and Medical Democracy in the Antebellum United States 165 April Haynes Documents: 8.1 Frederick Hollick, The Marriage Guide , 1850 177 8.2 Letters to the Editor about Dr. Frederick Hollick, 1845 183 Part II Modern America 187 9 Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America 189 Peggy Pascoe Documents: 9.1 "Aoki - Engaged to Daughter of Prelate," 1909 202 9.2 "Emery Girl Ready to Marry the Japanese," 1909 204 9.3 "Aoki Expects to Wed in Portland," 1909 205 9.4 "Whose Business Is It?" 1909 206 9.5 "A Disgusting Spectacle," 1909 2...
