Table of Contents: Sex among the rabble :

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lyons, Clare A.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
Subjects and Genres:	Sex > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History. Sex role > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History. Marginality, Social > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Online Access:	Table of contents only Publisher description
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Table of Contents:

The sexual terrain of colonial and revolutionary Philadelphia
A springboard to revolution : runaway wives and self-divorce
The fruits of nonmarital unions : sex in the urban pleasure culture
The pleasures and powers of reading : eroticization of popular print and discursive interpretations of sex
Sex in the city in the age of democratic revolutions
To be "free and independent" : sex among the revolutionary rabble
Sex and the politics of gender in the age of revolution
Normalizing sex in the nineteenth century : the assault on nonmarital sexuality
Through our bodies : prostitution and the cultural reconstruction of nonmarital sexuality
Through our souls : the benevolent reform of sexual transgressors
Through our children : bastardy comes under attack.