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Rereading Sex : Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (2002, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10037540192X
ISBN-139780375401923
eBay Product ID (ePID)14038287204
Product Key Features
Book TitleRereading Sex : Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America
Number of Pages528 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicHuman Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), General
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, History
AuthorHelen Lefkowitz Horowitz
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight31.6 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-019105
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal306.7/0973
SynopsisA 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.
LC Classification NumberHQ18.U5H673 2002
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