Attitudes Toward Sex in Antebellum America

Attitudes Toward Sex in Antebellum America
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Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 9781319242831
ISBN-13 : 1319242839
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Download or read book Attitudes Toward Sex in Antebellum America written by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2006-02-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this colorful collection of documents, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz overturns the monolithic picture of Victorian sexual repression to reveal four contending views at play during the antebellum period: earthy American folk wisdom, the anti-flesh teachings of evangelical Christianity, moral reform grounded in science, and the utopian free love movement. Horowitz's introduction discusses how these diverse views shaped the antebellum conversation about the moral, social, and physical implications of sex and reflected the larger cultural and economic changes of this period of rapid industrialization and urban migration. Helpful headnotes contextualize this selection of hard-to-find documents, which includes scientific manuals, religious pamphlets, advertisements, and popular fiction. Contemporary illustrations, a chronology, and a bibliography foster students' understanding of antebellum sexual attitudes.

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