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Author Foster, Thomas A.

Title Sex and the eighteenth-century man : Massachusetts and the history of sexuality in America / Thomas A. Foster.

Imprint Boston : Beacon Press, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.708109 F817s 2006    ---  Available
Description xx, 223 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-217) and index.
Contents "He is not a man, that hath not a woman" -- Sex and the shattering of household order -- Rape and seduction : masculinity, misogyny, and male sexuality -- Sex and the community of men -- "Half-men" : bachelors, effeminacy, and sociability -- "When day and night together move" : men and cross-cultural sex -- "The paths of monstrous joy."
Subject Men -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Men -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Men -- United States -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Men -- Sexual behavior -- Massachusetts -- History -- 18th century.
Men -- Massachusetts -- History -- 18th century.
Men -- Massachusetts -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Massachusetts -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
ISBN 0807050385 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Standard No. YDXCP 2429161

 
    
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