Regulating Passion: Sexuality and Patriarchal Rule in Massachusetts, 1700-1830
- ISBN-10
- 0199928428
- ISBN-13
- 9780199928422
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Pages
- 279
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-04
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Kelly A. Ryan
Description
This title examines how the American Revolution changed the nature of patriarchal rule by shattering old ways of penalizing and publishing illicit sexual behaviour and more people embarked on policing the sexual morality of society.
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