Passion and Power: Sexuality in History

Abstract

Part I: Sexuality and Historical Meaning 1. Passion and Power: An Introdtion - Kathy Peiss and Christina Simmons 2. Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History - Robert A. Padgug Part II: Emergence of Modern Sexuality, 1790 to 1930 3. The Life of a Citizen in the Hands of a Woman: Sexual Assault in New York City, 1790 to 1820 - Marybeth Hamilton Arnold 4. Charity Girls and City Pleasurer: Historical Notes on Working Class Sexuality, 1880-1920 - Kathy Peiss 5. Movements of Affirmation: Sexual Meanings and Homosexual Identities - Jeffrey Weeks 6. From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: Changing Medical Conceptualization of Female Deviance - George Chauncey, Jr. 7. We Were a Little Band of Willful Women: Heterodoxy Club of Greenwich Village - Judith Schwartz, Kathy Peiss, and Christina Simmons 8. Black Community and the Birth Control Movement - Jessie M. Rodrique Part III: Sexual Conflicts and Cultural Authority, 1920 to 1960 9. Modern Sexuality and the Myrh of Victorian Repression - Christina Simmons 10. Venereal Disease: Wages of Sin? - Elizabeth Fee 11. Uncontrolled Desires: Response to the Sexual Psychopath, 1920-1960 - Estelle B. Freedman 12. Homosexual Menace: Politics of Sexuality in Cold War America - John D'Emilio 13. Reproduction of Butch-Fern Roles: A Social Constructionist Approach - Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline Davis Part IV: Private Passions and Public Debate, 1960 to the Present 14. Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women Is Different - Ann Barr Snitow 15. (De)Constructing Pornography: Feminisms in Conflict - Duphne Read 16. Gay Villain, Gay Hero: Homosexuality and the Social Construction of AIDS - Robert A. Padgug