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"The Routledge History of American Sexuality brings together contributions from leading scholars in history and related fields to provide a far-reaching but concrete history of sexuality in the United States. This interdisciplinary group of authors explore a wide variety of case studies and concepts to provide an innovative approach to the history of sexual practices and identities over several centuries. Each essay interrogates a provocative word or concept to reflect on the complex ideas, debates and differences of historical and cultural opinions surrounding it. Its authors challenge readers to look beyond contemporary identity-based movements in order to excavate the deeper histories of how people have sought sexual pleasure, power, and freedom in the Americas. This book is an invaluable resource for students or scholars seeking to grasp current research on the history of sexuality and is a seminal text for undergraduate and graduate courses on American history, Sexuality Studies, Women's Studies, Gender Studies, or LGBT Studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' Introduction -- 1. Abstinence -- The Rise of Abstinence Education -- Celibate Feminisms -- Sexual Choice and Asexuality -- Notes -- 2. Adolescence -- Normative Roots: The Emergence of Adolescence as a Developmental Category -- Undoing Adolescence: Problematizing Adolescence as a Distinct Developmental Period -- An Unsustainable Fiction -- Notes -- 3. Age -- Regulations -- Desires -- Notes -- 4. Animals -- Bestiality -- Breeding

Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. Archives -- From Modern Archives to the Postmodern Archive(s) -- Archive(s) and Sexualities -- Archival Futures -- Notes -- 6. Asexuality -- Notes -- 7. Borders -- Borders in Indigenous North America -- Western Borders and Indigenous Borderlands -- Rise of the U.S. Nation-State's Borders -- Borders in the Age of Imperialism -- Borders in Contemporary America -- Notes -- 8. Capitalism -- Sexual Patriarchy and Colonial Mercantilism -- Post Civil War-Progressive Era -- Capitalism and Sexual Agency after World War II -- Notes -- 9. Celebrity -- Introduction

Scandal, Celebrity, and the Invention of the Hollywood Star System:Fatty Arbuckle -- Tabloid Media and the Post-Classical Hollywood Mode of Celebrity: Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor -- Trans Media: Reality Programming, Social Media, Caitlyn Jenner, and Donald Trump -- Notes -- 10. Cities -- Defining Sexuality and Urbanity -- Sex and the City through the Years -- The Future of Sexual Urban History -- Notes -- 11. Citizenship -- Sexuality, Citizenship, and National Borders -- Race, Indigeneity, and Sexual Citizenship -- Scales of Sexual Citizenship -- Sexuality and Norms of Citizenship

Conclusion -- Notes -- 12. Class -- Class and Sexuality before 1900 -- Class and Sexuality in the Twentieth Century -- Class and Sexuality in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- 13. Consent -- Introduction -- Consent Across U.S. Rape Law -- Consent and the Gender Question -- Consent and Gender-Transitive Questions -- Affirmative Consent -- Notes -- 14. Contraception -- The Criminalization of Contraception -- Contraception, Feminism, and the Birth Control Movement -- Contraception as aReproductive Justice Issue -- Notes -- 15. Disability -- Classification -- Containment -- Rehabilitation -- Notes

16. Domesticity -- Sexual Constraint and Subjection within the Marital Household -- Sexual Surveillance and Intervention -- Alternative Domesticities -- Domestic Diversity and Normativity -- Notes -- 17. Empire -- Notes -- 18. Hygiene -- Establishing Infrastructures -- Segmenting Populations -- Managing Sexuality -- Mental Hygiene -- Hygiene and Sexuality since the 1960s -- Notes -- 19. Incarceration -- Sex and the Early Prison -- Prison Sexual Culture -- The Prison as Laboratory -- Sexuality and the Carceral State -- Notes -- 20. Marriage -- Defining a New Nation: Marriage as Civil Contract

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