American Sexual Histories

Elizabeth Reis is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex (2009) and Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England (1997).

• Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xiiiIntroduction 1Elizabeth ReisPart I Early America 91 Bodies in Doubt: Intersex in Early America 11Elizabeth ReisDocuments:1.1 Thomas/Thomasine Hall, 1629 251.2 James Parsons, A Mechanical and Critical Enquiry into the Nature of Hermaphrodites, 1741 271.3 Jane Sharp, The Midwives Book, 1671 292 Transgressive Male Sex in Early America 34Thomas A. FosterDocuments:2.1 Bestiality Cases in New Haven, Connecticut, 1638–49 472.2 "Trunil Him well brother," 1751 523 Indian Women, French Women, and the Regulation of Sex 56Jennifer M. SpearDocuments:3.1 Journal of Diron d’Artaguiette, 1722–3 733.2 Duclos to Pontchartrain, December 25, 1715 753.3 Lamothe Cadillac to Pontchartrain, October 26, 1713 773.4 Louisiana's Code Noir (1724) 794 Rape and Sexual Power in Early America 82Sharon BlockDocuments:4.1 Testimony against David Clark, 1764 954.2 Ephraim Wheeler's Rape Trial, 1805 965 The Overflowing of Friendship 101Richard GodbeerDocuments:5.1 Letters of Robert Treat Paine, 1749 1145.2 Letters of Daniel Webster, 1801–5 1166 Sex Among the Rabble 122Clare A. LyonsDocuments:6.1 Philadelphia Magdalen Society, Minutes, 1807-10 1346.2 Maria; or, the Seduction, 1796 1376.3 The Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen-House, 1760 1397 White Women, Black Men, and Adultery in the Antebellum South 147Martha HodesDocument:7.1 Lewis Bourne Divorce Petition, 1823-5 1618 Obscenity, Sex Education, and Medical Democracy in the Antebellum United States 165April HaynesDocuments:8.1 Frederick Hollick, The Marriage Guide, 1850 1778.2 Letters to the Editor about Dr. Frederick Hollick, 1845 183Part II Modern America 1879 Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America 189Peggy PascoeDocuments:9.1 "Aoki – Engaged to Daughter of Prelate," 1909 2029.2 "Emery Girl Ready to Marry the Japanese," 1909 2049.3 "Aoki Expects to Wed in Portland," 1909 2059.4 "Whose Business Is It?" 1909 2069.5 "A Disgusting Spectacle," 1909 2069.6 "Aoki's Inamorata Flits Northward," 1909 20710 Hysteria: The Revolt of the "Good Girl" 211Elizabeth LunbeckDocument:10.1 The Case of Miss A, 1913-14 22411 When Abortion Was Illegal 230Leslie J. ReaganDocuments:11.1 A Maryland Abortionist Gets No Pardon, 1904 24311.2 Dying Declarations Obtained in Abortion Case as Condition to Rendering Aid, 1909 24411.3 Comments of "Esther E.," 1920 24512 Contraceptive Consumers 247Andrea ToneDocuments:12.1 Advertisements for Lysol, 1932, 1933 26012.2 Facts and Frauds in Women's Hygiene, 1936 26212.3 What Do the American Women Think about Birth Control? 1938 26412.4 The Dilex Speech, 1938 26813 Lesbian Pulp Novels and US Lesbian Identity 270Yvonne KellerDocuments:13.1 Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness, 1928 28513.2 Tereska Torres, Women's Barracks, 1950 28813.3 Ann Bannon, Beebo Brinker, 1962 29114 Sex Change and the Popular Press 294Joanne MeyerowitzDocuments:14.1 Girl Changes into Man, 1936 30914.2 Psychopathia Transexualis, 1949 31114.3 New Sex Switches: Behind the Sensational Headlines Loom Unpleasant Medical Facts, 1954 31614.4 I Want to Become a Woman, 1956 31715 The Population Bomb and the Sexual Revolution 320Rickie SolingerDocuments:15.1 The Slavery of Sex Freedom: America’s Moral Crisis, 1957 33515.2 Are We Still Stereotyping the Unmarried Mother? 1960 33815.3 Population Crisis: Hearings before the Subcommittee on ForeignAid Expenditures of the Committee on Government Operations, 1965 34116 Marketing Safe Sex 345Jennifer BrierDocuments:16.1 "Can We Talk?" 1983 36116.2 "Information for People of Color, 1987" 36316.3 Promoting Condoms for Gay Men, 1987 364Source Acknowledgments 368Index 372

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