Against sex identities of sexual restraint in early America
"How much sex should a person have? With whom? What do we make of people who choose not to have sex at all? As present as these questions are today, they were subjects of intense debate in the early American republic. In this richly textured history, Kara French investigates ideas about, and pr...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina Press
2021
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| Schriftenreihe: | Gender and American culture
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| Schlagworte: |
Shakers / United States / History / 19th century
> Catholic Church / United States / History / 19th century
> Sex customs / United States / History / 19th century
> Sexual ethics / United States / History / 19th century
> Sexual abstinence / Religious aspects
> Grahamites
> USA
> Shakers
> Katholische Kirche
> Sexuelle Abstinenz
> Geschichte 1800-1900
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "How much sex should a person have? With whom? What do we make of people who choose not to have sex at all? As present as these questions are today, they were subjects of intense debate in the early American republic. In this richly textured history, Kara French investigates ideas about, and practices of, sexual restraint to better understand the sexual dimensions of American identity in the antebellum United States"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-201) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xiii, 218 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781469662145 9781469662138 |