Passion and Power: Sexuality in HistoryKathy Lee Peiss, Christina Simmons, Robert A. Padgug Passion and Power brings together some of the most recent and innovative writings on the history of sexuality and explores the experiences, ideas, and conflicts that have shaped the emergence of modern sexual identities. Arguing that sexuality is not an unchanging biological reality or a universal natural force, the essays in this volume discuss sexuality as an integral part of the history of human experience. Articles on sexual assault, homosexuality, birth control, venereal disease, sexual repression, pornography, and the AIDS epidemic examine the ways that sexuality has become a core element of modern social identity in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States.It is only in recent years that historians have begun to examine the social construction of sexuality. This is the first anthology that addresses this issue from a radical historical perspective, examining sexuality as a field of contention in itself and as part of other struggles rooted in divisions of gender, class, and race. Author note: Kathy Peiss is Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and author of Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-century New York (Temple). >P>Christina Simmons is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati-Raymond Walters College. |
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Contents
An Introduction | 3 |
On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History | 14 |
II | 25 |
Sexual Assault | 35 |
Historical Notes on WorkingClass | 55 |
Sexual Meanings and Homosexual | 70 |
The Changing Medical | 87 |
The Heterodoxy Club | 118 |
The Wages of Sin? | 178 |
The Response to the Sexual Psychopath | 199 |
The Politics of Sexuality in Cold | 226 |
A Social Constructionist | 241 |
IV | 257 |
Feminisms in Conflict | 277 |
Homosexuality and the Social Construction | 293 |
Notes About the Contributors | 317 |
The Black Community and the Birth Control Movement | 138 |
Modern Sexuality and the Myth of Victorian Repression | 157 |
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