Rewriting Sex Sexual Knowledge In Antebellum America

Author : Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403971555
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rewriting Sex: Sexual Knowledge in Antebellum America written by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The public discussion of sexuality in America first came about in the 1820s. Predictably, Americans diverged considerably on how to approach the controversial topic. Folk wisdom, current scientific beliefs, and the teachings of evangelical Christianity all shaped the antebellum conversation about the moral, social and physical implications of sex. In her introduction, Professor Horowitz takes American sexual history beyond the boundaries of the twentieth century and elucidates the complex issues surrounding nineteenth-century debates and dialogue. Helpful headnotes contextualize this colorful selection of hard-to-find documents, which includes medical articles, religious pamphlets, advertisements and propaganda, and popular literature. Contemporary illustrations, a chronology, and a bibliography foster students’ understanding of antebellum sexual knowledge.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137054131
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rewriting Sex: Sexual Knowledge in Antebellum America written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The public discussion of sexuality in America first came about in the 1820s. Predictably, Americans diverged considerably on how to approach the controversial topic. Folk wisdom, current scientific beliefs, and the teachings of evangelical Christianity all shaped the antebellum conversation about the moral, social and physical implications of sex. In her introduction, Professor Horowitz takes American sexual history beyond the boundaries of the twentieth century and elucidates the complex issues surrounding nineteenth-century debates and dialogue. Helpful headnotes contextualize this colorful selection of hard-to-find documents, which includes medical articles, religious pamphlets, advertisements and propaganda, and popular literature. Contemporary illustrations, a chronology, and a bibliography foster students understanding of antebellum sexual knowledge.

Author : Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 1319242839
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rereading Sex written by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2002 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, scholarly, and often startling exploration of 19th-century American attitudes toward sexuality -- what we felt, thought, wrote, and said about the human body; about love, lust, intercourse, masturbation, contraception, and abortion; about the power of sexual words and images.Horowitz shows us a many-voiced America in which an earthy acceptance of desire and sexual expression collided with the prohibitions broadcast from pulpit and printed page by evangelical Christian elements. She describes the new sensibility that placed sex at the center of life; visionaries like Robert Owen, espousing free love, and the lively new commerce in erotica -- including newspapers like The Sunday Flash and, most famously, The National Police Gazette (which featured a legal way to write explicitly about sex). We see a rising opposition instigated by conservative New Yorkers who feared the corruption of young male clerks living in boardinghouses, deprived of parental influence. And we see how this movement led into an era of suppression -- pitting Anthony Comstock, who succeeded in banning sexual subject matter from the mails, against the new dissenters committed to free speech -- and into the opening battles of the national cultural wars that continue to this day.

Author : Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
ISBN 13 : 9780312592899
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Attitudes Toward Sex in Antebellum America + The American Women's Movement 1945 - 2000 written by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz and published by Bedford/st Martins. This book was released on 2008-12-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
ISBN 13 : 9781457656996
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Attitudes Toward Sex in Antebellum America + Women's Rights Emerges Within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870 written by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz and published by Bedford/st Martins. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ellen Carol Dubois
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
ISBN 13 : 9780312471361
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Women's Eyes + Attitudes Toward Sex in Antebellum America written by Ellen Carol Dubois and published by Bedford/st Martins. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Katie M. Hemphill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110848901X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bawdy City written by Katie M. Hemphill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centering the experiences of women, this vivid social history examines Baltimore's prostitution trade and its evolution throughout the nineteenth century.

Author : Mary Rowlandson
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
ISBN 13 : 9781457610035
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sovereignty and Goodness of God + Attitudes Towards Sex in Antebellum America + Black Americans in the Revolutionary Era + Great Awakening + Democracy in America + Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War 2e written by Mary Rowlandson and published by Bedford/st Martins. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : April R. Haynes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022628462X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riotous Flesh written by April R. Haynes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The claim that masturbation isn t good for you didn t just come out of nowhere. As April Haynes shows, a range of feminist reformers in nineteenth century America all agreed that the solitary vice caused untold suffering and death; that women and girls masturbated as frequently as did men and boys; that they did so because they lacked access to sexual information; and that therefore, female sex education would save lives. Haynes, in short shows that nascent feminists remade what might have been a puritanical crusade into a basis for envisioning their own sexual self-masterywith mixed results, for Haynes also tells the story of how, before the advent of sexology or even the professionalization of medicine, a great silent army of evangelical female reformers first popularized, then institutionalized, the normative sexual discourse of the nineteenth century."