The Routledge History of American Sexuality

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The Routledge History of American Sexuality brings together contributions from leading scholars in history and related fields to provide a far-reaching but concrete history of sexuality in the United States. This interdisciplinary group of authors explores a wide variety of case studies and concepts to provide an innovative approach to the history of sexual practices and identities over several centuries. Each chapter interrogates a provocative word or concept to reflect on the complex ideas, debates, and differences of historical and cultural opinions surrounding it. Authors challenge readers to look beyond contemporary identity-based movements in order to excavate the deeper histories of how people have sought sexual pleasure, power, and freedom in the Americas. This book is an invaluable resource for students or scholars seeking to grasp current research on the history of sexuality and is a seminal text for undergraduate and graduate courses on American History, Sexuality Studies, Women's Studies, Gender Studies, or LGBTQ Studies. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments Editors’ Introduction 1. Abstinence The Rise of Abstinence Education Celibate Feminisms Sexual Choice and Asexuality Notes 2. Adolescence Normative Roots: The Emergence of Adolescence as a Developmental Category Undoing Adolescence: Problematizing Adolescence as a Distinct Developmental Period An Unsustainable Fiction Notes 3. Age Regulations Desires Notes 4. Animals Bestiality Breeding Conclusion Notes 5. Archives From Modern Archives to the Postmodern Archive(s) Archive(s) and Sexualities Archival Futures Notes 6. Asexuality Notes 7. Borders Borders in Indigenous North America Western Borders and Indigenous Borderlands Rise of the U.S. Nation-State’s Borders Borders in the Age of Imperialism Borders in Contemporary America Notes 8. Capitalism Sexual Patriarchy and Colonial Mercantilism Post Civil War—Progressive Era Capitalism and Sexual Agency after World War II Notes 9. Celebrity Introduction Scandal, Celebrity, and the Invention of the Hollywood Star System:Fatty Arbuckle Tabloid Media and the Post-Classical Hollywood Mode of Celebrity: Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor Trans Media: Reality Programming, Social Media, Caitlyn Jenner, and Donald Trump Notes 10. Cities Defining Sexuality and Urbanity Sex and the City through the Years The Future of Sexual Urban History Notes 11. Citizenship Sexuality, Citizenship, and National Borders Race, Indigeneity, and Sexual Citizenship Scales of Sexual Citizenship Sexuality and Norms of Citizenship Conclusion Notes 12. Class Class and Sexuality before 1900 Class and Sexuality in the Twentieth Century Class and Sexuality in the Twenty-First Century Notes 13. Consent Introduction Consent Across U.S. Rape Law Consent and the Gender Question Consent and Gender-Transitive Questions Affirmative Consent Notes 14. Contraception The Criminalization of Contraception Contraception, Feminism, and the Birth Control Movement Contraception as aReproductive Justice Issue Notes 15. Disability Classification Containment Rehabilitation Notes 16. Domesticity Sexual Constraint and Subjection within the Marital Household Sexual Surveillance and Intervention Alternative Domesticities Domestic Diversity and Normativity Notes 17. Empire Notes 18. Hygiene Establishing Infrastructures Segmenting Populations Managing Sexuality Mental Hygiene Hygiene and Sexuality since the 1960s Notes 19. Incarceration Sex and the Early Prison Prison Sexual Culture The Prison as Laboratory Sexuality and the Carceral State Notes 20. Marriage Defining a New Nation: Marriage as Civil Contract Sex and the Settler State(s): Marriage as Racial Formation Inventing Modern Marriage Saving Modern Marriage Notes 21. Movements From the Progressive Era to the Straight State The Sexual Politics of the Black Freedom Struggle Homophile Activism between the Old and New Lefts Anti-Militarism and Feminist and Gay Politics AIDS as aLens into Inequality Conclusion Notes 22. Obscenity Notes 23. Performance Notes 24. Play S/he Was a Big Freak And the Reason Is Camille … Feels so Good Being Bad Notes 25. Polygamy Polygamy and Settler Colonialism Polygamy as a “Mormon Problem” Regulating and Representing Polygamy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Notes 26. Race Sex and the Color Line Slavery and Sexual Violence Interracial Anxieties Sex and Scientific Racism Sex and “slumming” in “modern” America Sex and Civil Rights Race and Sexual Identity Conclusion Notes 27. Religion The Erotics of Conversion Approaching “Religion” Narrating Sexuality and Religion in American History Religion and the Triumph of Sex Religion and Sexual Politics in Modern America Notes 28. Revolution Notes 29. Romance Life and Love in the Colonial and Early National Period Economy and Emotion Sexual and Emotional Shifts Romantic Visions and Values of the Twenty-First Century Notes 30. Science Sexology: The Science of Sex The Medical Scientist as Friend and Foe Notes 31. Slavery Sexuality and the Formation of Slavery Sexual Experiences of the Enslaved Notes 32. Sodomy Keywords and Recent Exposures Abuse and Occlusion on the Frontiers of U.S. Empire Catholicism, Eroticism, and Abuse Notes 33. Trafficking Definitional and Calculative Flux Panics and Politics Notes 34. Violence Ideologies and Structure Forms and Practices Notes 35. Work Thomas Jefferson’s Agrarian Vision: Farming, Fatherhood, and the Politics of Independence Domesticating Karl Marx: Worker Identity Politics and the Family Wage From the Workingman to Cardi B: Re-politicizing Work in the Twenty-First Century Notes Further Reading Index