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Taming passion for the public good : policing sex in the early republic
- Author
- Kann, Mark E.
- Title
- Taming passion for the public good : policing sex in the early republic / Mark E. Kann.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : New York University Press, c2013.
- Description
- ix, 237 pages ; 24 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-228) and index.
- Contents
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- In the shadow of patriarchal authority
- Resilient patriarchal authority
- The need to police sex
- Policing impassioned men
- Policing women's sex lives
- Policing prostitution
- The patriarchal core of liberalism.
- Kinsey subjects
- Sex ethics--United States--18th century. Sex ethics--United States--17th century.
- ISBN
- 9780814770191 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0814770193 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780814764671 (ebk.) 0814764673 (ebk.) 9780814759462 (ebk.) 0814759467 (ebk.)