Description: Acknowledgements Introduction John C. Fout Part 1: from the Victorians to the Flappers Childhood and Sexual Identity under Slavery Anthony S. Parent, Jr., and Susan Brown Wallace The Sexualization of Reconstruction Politics: White Women and Black Men in the South after the Civil War Martha Hodes "Lost Manhood" Found: Male Sexual Impotence and Victorian Culture in the United States Kevin J. Mumford "The Word Made Flesh": Language, Authority, and Sexual Desire in Late Nineteenth-Century America Jesse F. Battan A debate on the American Home: The Antipolygamy Contrversy, 1880-1890 Joan Smyth Iversen Sex Radicalism in the Canadian Pacific Northwest, 1890-1920 Angus McLaren In Search of the "Real Thing": Ideologies of Love, Modern Romance, and Women's Sexual Subjectivity in the United States, 1920-1940 Pamela S. Haag Blue Notes on Black Sexuality: Sex and the texts of Jesse Fauset and Nella Larsen Ann duCille Part 2: Sexual Politics and Sexual Radicals since the 1940s The Anatomy of Lynching Robyn Weigman Danger on the Home Front: Motherhood, Sexuality, and Disabled Veterans in American Postwar Films Sonya Michel Portraits of Three "Physicians of Conscience": Abortion before Legalization in the United States Carole Joffe Disclosure and secrecy among Gay Men in the United States and Canada: A Shift in Views Roy Cain Rubber Wars: Struggles over the Condom in the United States Joshua Gamson The Return of Butch and Femme: A Phenomenon in Lesbian Sexuality of the 1980s and 1990s Lillian Faderman Of Purebreds and Hybrids: The Politics of Teaching AIDS in the United States Katherine Cummings "Black Gay Male" Discourse: Reading Race and Sexuality between the Lines Arthur Flanningan-Saitn-Aubin Notes on Contributors Index

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