American Sexual Histories

?A comprehensive, eye-opening collection of essays and meaningful documents. Elizabeth Reis forces us to reevaluate what we think we know about sex in American history.? ? Nancy Isenberg, Louisiana State University ?This terrific book does two things at once. It shows why sexuality has become such an important window onto the American past. And it illustrates concretely how primary sources are transformed into history.? ? Ellen Herman, University of Oregon ?An extremely useful survey of sexual history in the United States, representing the diversity of race/ethnicity, class, gender, and sexual orientation, and featuring an excellent selection of primary documents.? ? Susan Stryker, University of Arizona ?Although my students loved?and learned much?from the first edition of American Sexual Histories, the updated second edition is even better. Great primary sources?important and current historical scholarship?both challenging and absorbing. Highly teachable!? ? Gail Bederman, Notre Dame University

Elizabeth Reis is Associate Professor of Womens and Gender Studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex (2009) and Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England (1997).

Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Elizabeth Reis Part I Early America 9 1 Bodies in Doubt: Intersex in Early America 11 Elizabeth Reis Documents: 1.1 Thomas/Thomasine Hall, 1629 25 1.2 James Parsons, A Mechanical and Critical Enquiry into the Nature of Hermaphrodites, 1741 27 1.3 Jane Sharp, The Midwives Book, 1671 29 2 Transgressive Male Sex in Early America 34 Thomas A. Foster Documents: 2.1 Bestiality Cases in New Haven, Connecticut, 163849 47 2.2 "Trunil Him well brother," 1751 52 3 Indian Women, French Women, and the Regulation of Sex 56 Jennifer M. Spear Documents: 3.1 Journal of Diron dArtaguiette, 17223 73 3.2 Duclos to Pontchartrain, December 25, 1715 75 3.3 Lamothe Cadillac to Pontchartrain, October 26, 1713 77 3.4 Louisiana's Code Noir (1724) 79 4 Rape and Sexual Power in Early America 82 Sharon Block Documents: 4.1 Testimony against David Clark, 1764 95 4.2 Ephraim Wheeler's Rape Trial, 1805 96 5 The Overflowing of Friendship 101 Richard Godbeer Documents: 5.1 Letters of Robert Treat Paine, 1749 114 5.2 Letters of Daniel Webster, 18015 116 6 Sex Among the Rabble 122 Clare A. Lyons Documents: 6.1 Philadelphia Magdalen Society, Minutes, 1807-10 134 6.2 Maria; or, the Seduction, 1796 137 6.3 The Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen-House, 1760 139 7 White Women, Black Men, and Adultery in the Antebellum South 147 Martha Hodes Document: 7.1 Lewis Bourne Divorce Petition, 1823-5 161 8 Obscenity, Sex Education, and Medical Democracy in the Antebellum United States 165 April Haynes Documents: 8.1 Frederick Hollick, The Marriage Guide, 1850 177 8.2 Letters to the Editor about Dr. Frederick Hollick, 1845 183 Part II Modern America 187 9 Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America 189 Peggy Pascoe Documents: 9.1 "Aoki Engaged to Daughter of Prelate," 1909 202 9.2 "Emery Girl Ready to Marry the Japanese," 1909 204 9.3 "Aoki Expects to Wed in Portland," 1909 205 9.4 "Whose Business Is It?" 1909 206 9.5 "A Disgusting Spectacle," 1909 206 9.6 "Aoki's Inamorata Flits Northward," 1909 207 10 Hysteria: The Revolt of the "Good Girl" 211 Elizabeth Lunbeck Document: 10.1 The Case of Miss A, 1913-14 224 11 When Abortion Was Illegal 230 Leslie J. Reagan Documents: 11.1 A Maryland Abortionist Gets No Pardon, 1904 243 11.2 Dying Declarations Obtained in Abortion Case as Condition to Rendering Aid, 1909 244 11.3 Comments of "Esther E.," 1920 245 12 Contraceptive Consumers 247 Andrea Tone Documents: 12.1 Advertisements for Lysol, 1932, 1933 260 12.2 Facts and Frauds in Women's Hygiene, 1936 262 12.3 What Do the American Women Think about Birth Control? 1938 264 12.4 The Dilex Speech, 1938 268 13 Lesbian Pulp Novels and US Lesbian Identity 270 Yvonne Keller Documents: 13.1 Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness, 1928 285 13.2 Tereska Torres, Women's Barracks, 1950 288 13.3 Ann Bannon, Beebo Brinker, 1962 291 14 Sex Change and the Popular Press 294 Joanne Meyerowitz Documents: 14.1 Girl Changes into Man, 1936 309 14.2 Psychopathia Transexualis, 1949 311 14.3 New Sex Switches: Behind the Sensational Headlines Loom Unpleasant Medical Facts, 1954 316 14.4 I Want to Become a Woman, 1956 317 15 The Population Bomb and the Sexual Revolution 320 Rickie Solinger Documents: 15.1 The Slavery of Sex Freedom: Americas Moral Crisis, 1957 335 15.2 Are We Still Stereotyping the Unmarried Mother? 1960 338 15.3 Population Crisis: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Foreign Aid Expenditures of the Committee on Government Operations, 1965 341 16 Marketing Safe Sex 345 Jennifer Brier Documents: 16.1 "Can We Talk?" 1983 361 16.2 "Information for People of Color, 1987" 363 16.3 Promoting