Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-431) and index.
Contents
Part 1. The reproductive matrix, 1600-1800 -- 1. Cultural diversity in the Era of Settlement -- 2. Family life and the regulation of deviance -- 3. Seeds of change -- Part 2. Divided passions, 1780-1900 -- 4. Within the family -- 5. Race and sexuality -- 6. Outside the family -- 7. Sexual politics -- Part 3. Toward a new sexual order, 1880-1930 -- 8. "Civilized morality" under stress -- 9. Crusades for sexual order -- 10. Breaking with the past -- Part 4. The rise and fall of sexual liberalism 1920 to the present -- 11. Beyond reproduction -- 12. Redrawing the boundaries -- 13. Sexual revolutions -- 14. The sexualized society -- 15. The contemporary political crisis.