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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Main Author: French, Kara M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press [2021]
Series:Gender and American culture
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Online Access:DE-188
Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 218 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781469662152
9781469662169
9798890859570

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