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Taming Passion for the Public Good Policing Sex in the Early Republic /

Kann, Mark E.

Taming Passion for the Public Good Policing Sex in the Early Republic / [Recurso electrónico] : Mark E. Kann. - New York : New York University Press, 2012 - 1 online resource (ix, 237 pages ) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-228) and index.

In the shadow of patriarchal authority -- Resilient patriarchal authority -- The need to police sex -- Policing impassioned men -- Policing women's sex lives -- Policing prostitution -- The patriarchal core of liberalism.

Libro Electrónico

ISBN: 9780814759462 0814770193

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sexual ethics--History.--United States
Sex--History--United States--18th century.
Sex--History--United States--17th century.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Moral conditions.
United States--History--1783-1865.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HQ18.U5 / K365 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 306.70973