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Rereading sex : battles over sexual knowledge and suppression in nineteenth-century America

Print Book, English, 2003
1st Vintage books ed View all formats and editions
Vintage Books, New York, 2003
History
x, 514 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9780375701863, 9780375401923, 0375701869, 037540192X
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Introduction
Part I : Sexual conversation
Vernacular sexual culture, commercial erotica, and obscene libel ; Free thought, sexual knowledge, and Evangelical Christianity ; Blasphemy, birth control, and obscenity ; Masturbation scare and the rise of reform physiology
Part II : New York scene
New York and the emergence of sporting culture ; Moral reformers ; Sporting weeklies and obscene libel ; Abortion ; Obscenity in the city
Part III : Additions and complications
Placing sex at the core of being ; Blurring the boundaries
Part IV : Sexual knowledge and obscenity in New York and the nation
Y.M.C.A. of New York, the Civil War, and Anthony Comstock ; Sex talk in the open ; Victoria Woodhull ; Comstock Law ; Comstock's crusade ; Convictions ; Constitutionality and resistance : Bennett, Benedict, and Blatchford