Traces changing American attitudes towards human sexuality, discusses social issues involving race, gender, class, and sexual preference, and looks at crusaders

What role did sexual assault play in the conquest of America? How did American attitudes toward female sexuality evolve, and how was sexuality regulated in the

Now available in a new paperback edition, this survey is different in both breadth and scope from all other reports on sexuality in the United States. It covers

How natural history made sex scientific in the eighteenth century. If sexology—the science of sex—came into being sometime in the nineteenth century, then h

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical