Against Sex
Identities of Sexual Restraint in Early America
By Kara M. French
232 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 12 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-6214-5
Published: June 2021 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-6213-8
Published: June 2021 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-6215-2
Published: April 2021 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-5956-3
Published: April 2021
Gender and American Culture
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Against Sex makes clear that in assessing the history of sexuality, an expansive view of sexual practice that includes abstinence and restraint can shed important new light on histories of society, culture, and politics.
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Kara French is associate professor of history at Salisbury University.
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"A well-researched and generally well-argued book that brings needed nuance to discussions of sexuality in new religious movements of the antebellum period."—Nova Religio
"An excellently researched study that sheds new light on aspects of early American views of sexuality and gender. . . . French's work raises a mirror to those who did not engage in sexual restraint in the early republic, and what it reveals is fascinating."—H-Early-America
"It's high time for abstinence to have its history, and Kara French is an ideal chronicler for the antebellum United States. This book held my attention throughout, introduced me to stuff I didn't know (or even suspect), and wowed me with its consistently imaginative and subtle analysis."—Christine Leigh Heyrman, University of Delaware
"Certain to be on the must-read list for every scholar in the early American history of gender, sexuality, and religion."—Bruce Dorsey, Swarthmore College