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Whose Sexual Revolutions? by Spear, Jennifer M. is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Whose Sexual Revolutions? about?
On June 26, 2003, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision in the case of Lawrence v. Texas, ruling that the state cannot interfere in the private and consensual sexual practices of consenting adults regardless of their gender. This case is just one more episode in the struggle over competing sexual moralities, particularly in defining the legitimacy of specific kinds of sexual behaviors, under what kinds of circumstances, a struggle that Richard Godbeer demonstrates has existed from the earliest years of British North America. Sexual Revolution in Early America identifies a series of sexual revolutions that took place in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries out of which emerged some of the elements of our modern sexual world. In Puritan New England, moralists and leaders sought to impose a revolution from above, establishing a hegemonic sexual order that was an integral part of the Puritan experiment. In the southern colonies, ordinary colonists enacted their own revolution, refusing similar attempts of southern leaders to reform popular sexual mores. In both regions, notions of proper sexual behavior were intimately linked to their proponents' identities as Chri
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- Author
- Spear, Jennifer M.
- Publisher
- John Hopkins University Press; Project MUSE; The Johns Hopkins University Press; JSTOR (ISSN 0048-7511)
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences