Greta LaFleur is an associate professor of American studies at Yale University.

Greta LaFleur invites readers to consider a different body. The book effectively historicizes categories that are often taken for granted (sex, race, vice, habit), and shows us not only their temporal contingency, but also invites the reader to delve into the strangeness of early modern ontologies and epistemologies. LaFleur ultimately crafts a space of possibility for different futures as well. These are futures of greater intersectional solidarity in which we are invited to think about the collective, and move past the dominance of the individual, the subjective and modern biopoliticized body.—New Books Network

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction:Toward an Environmental Theory of Early Sexuality1. The Natural History of Sexuality2. The Complexion of Sodomy3. "Egyptian Lusts" and Other Bad Habits: Narrating Sexual Deviance and Executing Racial Difference4. "Columbia's Soil": Botanical Sexuality and the Colonial Landscape in Herman Mann's The Female Review5. Vice, Race, and the Sexuality of Space: The Early Nineteenth Century in Boston's "Negro Hill"Epilogue: Thinking Sex—Without the SubjectNotesWorks Cited

Greta LaFleur is an associate professor of American studies at Yale University.

Greta LaFleur invites readers to consider a different body. The book effectively historicizes categories that are often taken for granted (sex, race, vice, habit), and shows us not only their temporal contingency, but also invites the reader to delve into the strangeness of early modern ontologies and epistemologies. LaFleur ultimately crafts a space of possibility for different futures as well. These are futures of greater intersectional solidarity in which we are invited to think about the collective, and move past the dominance of the individual, the subjective and modern biopoliticized body.—New Books Network

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction:Toward an Environmental Theory of Early Sexuality1. The Natural History of Sexuality2. The Complexion of Sodomy3. "Egyptian Lusts" and Other Bad Habits: Narrating Sexual Deviance and Executing Racial Difference4. "Columbia's Soil": Botanical Sexuality and the Colonial Landscape in Herman Mann's The Female Review5. Vice, Race, and the Sexuality of Space: The Early Nineteenth Century in Boston's "Negro Hill"Epilogue: Thinking Sex—Without the SubjectNotesWorks Cited

Greta LaFleur is an associate professor of American studies at Yale University.

Greta LaFleur invites readers to consider a different body. The book effectively historicizes categories that are often taken for granted (sex, race, vice, habit), and shows us not only their temporal contingency, but also invites the reader to delve into the strangeness of early modern ontologies and epistemologies. LaFleur ultimately crafts a space of possibility for different futures as well. These are futures of greater intersectional solidarity in which we are invited to think about the collective, and move past the dominance of the individual, the subjective and modern biopoliticized body.—New Books Network

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction:Toward an Environmental Theory of Early Sexuality1. The Natural History of Sexuality2. The Complexion of Sodomy3. "Egyptian Lusts" and Other Bad Habits: Narrating Sexual Deviance and Executing Racial Difference4. "Columbia's Soil": Botanical Sexuality and the Colonial Landscape in Herman Mann's The Female Review5. Vice, Race, and the Sexuality of Space: The Early Nineteenth Century in Boston's "Negro Hill"Epilogue: Thinking Sex—Without the SubjectNotesWorks Cited