1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white)
Contents
Cover ; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Patriarchy and Sexuality; PART ONE: SEXUALITY AND PATRIARCHY IN THE LATE COLONIAL ERA; 1. "The Slaves of Hymen": White Women's Sexuality and the Insistence on Marriage; 2. "The Passions Are against You": White Men's Sexual Reputations; 3. Racialized Patriarchy: Indians and African Americans in the Patriarchal Ideal; PART TWO: CHALLENGING THE PATRIARCHAL ORDER ; 4. Hardy Men and Rustic Women: Sexualizing the Politics of the Imperial Crisis; 5. Dealing with Independence: The Patriarchal Gaze and the Crisis in Racialized Patriarchy
6. Making Chaste Citizens: Sexual Regulation and Reputation in the Early Republic7. Seduced Women and Designing Men: Refashioning the Sexual and Gendered Self; 8. Scrutinizing Sexuality: Charity and the Patriarchal Gaze; Conclusion: "Nothing but our rights": Patriarchy, Sexual Reputation, and Power; Appendix A : OCCUPATIONS OF MEN ACCUSED OF PATERNITY IN MIDDLESEX COUNTY, 1740-1785 ; Appendix B: OCCUPATIONS OF MEN IN PATERNITY SUITS IN SUFFOLK COUNTY, 1743-1785 ; Appendix C: OCCUPATIONS OF MEN IN PATERNITY SUITS IN WORCESTER COUNTY ; Notes; Manuscript Sources; Index
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 19, 2014)
