Documenting Intimate Matters - Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America

Over time, sexuality in America has changed dramatically. Frequently redefined and often subject to different systems of regulation, it has been used as a means of control and has been at the center of fierce political storms. This title features documents that highlight the broad diversity inherent in the history of American sexuality.

About the author

Thomas A. Foster is associate professor and chair of the Department of History at DePaul University. He is the author of Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America and the editor of Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America and New Men: Manliness in Early America.

Summary

Over time, sexuality in America has changed dramatically. Frequently redefined and often subject to different systems of regulation, it has been used as a means of control and has been at the center of fierce political storms. This title features documents that highlight the broad diversity inherent in the history of American sexuality.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas A. Foster, Thomas A. (EDT) Foster, FOSTER THOMAS A
• Assisted by: Thomas A. Foster (Editor), Foster Thomas A. (Editor), D'Emilio John (Foreword), Estelle B. Freedman (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.12.2012
• EAN: 9780226257471
• ISBN: 978-0-226-25747-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, United States of America, USA, Sociology: sexual relations, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality