American Sexual Histories

Reis, Elizabeth (Editor)

Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History

2. Edition December 2011
400 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

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The second edition of this text features an updated collection of sixteen articles and their corresponding primary sources that investigate issues related to human sexuality in America from the colonial era to the present day. Fully updated with ten new chapters, featuring recently published essays by prominent scholars in the field, it provides readers with the source documents that historians have analyzed in their articles. This approach encourages undergraduates to evaluate historical documents, test the interpretations of historians, and then draw their own conclusions.

ISBN: 978-1-4443-3929-1

John Wiley & Sons

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The second edition of American Sexual Histories features an updated collection of sixteen articles and their corresponding primary sources that investigate issues related to human sexuality in America from the colonial era to the present day.
* Fully updated with ten new chapters, featuring recently published essays by prominent scholars in the field
* Provides readers with the source documents that historians have analyzed in their articles
* Allows readers to see how historians craft arguments based on available sources
* Encourages readers to evaluate historical documents, test the interpretations of historians, and draw their own conclusions

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Early America
Part II: Modern America
Source Acknowledgments
Index

Elizabeth Reis is Associate Professor of Women's 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).

E. Reis, University of Oregon, USA