Description: From bawdy talk to evangelical sermons, and from celebrations of free love to prosecutions for obscenity, nineteenth-century America encompassed a far broader range of sexual attitudes and ideas than the Victorian stereotype would have us believe. In Rereading Sex, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz lets us listen to the national conversation about sex in the nineteenth century and hear voices that resonate in our own time.
Probing court records, pamphlets, and “sporting men’s” magazines, Horowitz shows us a many-voiced America in which an earthy acceptance of desire and sexual expression collided with prohibitions broadcast from the pulpit. We encounter fascinating reformers like Victoria Woodhull, who advocated free love and became the first woman to run for president; faddists like Sylvester Graham, who obsessed about the dangers of masturbation; and moral crusaders like Anthony Comstock, who succeeded in banning sexual subject matter from the mails. We also see how newspapers like the Sunday Flash treated prostitutes like celebrities and how the National Police Gazette found a legal way to write about explicity about sex through crime reports that read like gossip columns. Employing an encyclopedic knowledge artfully rendered, Horowitz brings to the fore a wide spectrum of attitudes and a debate echoed in the culture wars of today.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Rereading Sex : Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America
Number of Pages: 528 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2003
Item Height: 1.3 in
Topic: Human Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), United States / 19th Century, Gender Studies, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality)
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, Psychology, History
Item Weight: 23.1 Oz
Author: Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
