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
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Sexual ethics--History.--United States Sex--History--United States--18th century. Sex--History--United States--17th century.
United States--Moral conditions. United States--History--1783-1865.