Thomas A. Foster is professor of history at DePaul University. He is the author of Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America and Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past. He is also the editor of Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality, New Men: Manliness in Early America, and Documenting Intimate Matters: Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America.
Foreword: Using
Documenting Intimate MattersJohn DEmilio and Estelle Freedman
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE: THE MARITAL AND REPRODUCTIVE MATRIX, 1600-1800
1. Massachusetts Body of Liberties (1641)
2. Jane Sharp, The Midwifes Book (1671)
3. Anne Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband” (1678)
4. Witchcraft Trial of Catherina Lujan, New Mexico (1708)
5. John Lawson on Native American Women, North Carolina (1709)
6. Diary of William Byrd, Virginia Planter (1710-1712)
7. Unchast Practices (1716)
8. Chassin to Father Bobe, Louisiana (1722)
9. The Boston News-Letter on “Sodomitical Clubs” (1726)
10. Slander and Reputation in North Carolina Court Cases (1747, 1749)
11. John Smith, Quaker, Courts Hannah Logan (1748)
12. Keeping a House of Fornication (1754)
13. Life and Dying Speech of Arthur, a Negro Man (1768)
14. Depositions in the case of Sarah Muckamugg, Rhode Island (1752-1774)
PART TWO: DIVIDED PASSIONS, 1780-1900
1. Documenting Philadelphia Womens Self-Divorce in the Pennsylvania Gazette and Packet (1780s-1790s)
2. Sylvester Graham, Lecture to Young Men (1838)
3. Louisa Picquet, interviewed by H. Mattison, Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon; or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life
4. Abraham Lincolns correspondence with Speed (1842)
5. New York Sporting Whip (1843)
6. “The Lynching of a Mexican Woman in California” (1851)
7. “Indian Concubines,” the National Era (1858)
8. Willie Ann Grey, Letter to Her Husband (1866)
9. Civil War Love Letter (1864)
10. Horatio Robinson Storer, Criminal Abortion (1868)
11. John Humphrey Noyes, Male Continence (1872)
12. Diary of Frederick Ryman (1884)
13. Womens Social Purity Meeting (1888)
14. Anthony Comstock, Traps for the Young (1883)
PART THREE: TOWARD A NEW SEXUAL ORDER, 1880-1930
1. Nicholas F. Cooke, Satan in Society (1890)
2. Dr. Clelia Mosher, Mosher Survey (1892)
3. Alice B. Stockham, Tokology (1898)
4. Ida B. Wells, Red Record (1895)
5. W. E. B. DuBois, Philadelphia Negro (1899)
6. Jane Addams, Spirit of Youth (1909)
7. Mexican American Ballads (corridos)
8. Pacific Northwest Male Prostitution/Truancy (1913)
9. George J. Kneeland, Commercialized Prostitution in New York City (1913)
10. Robert A. Woods and Albert J. Kennedy, Young Working Girls (1913)
11. O. Edward Janney, White Slave Traffic (1911)
12. Louis Krauss, “Humanity”; or, What Every Father, Mother, Boy, and Girl Should Know (1915)
13. William J. Robinson, Sex Knowledge for Women and Girls (1917)
14. Mary Ware Dennett, Birth Control Laws: Shall We Keep Them or Abolish Them? (1926)
PART FOUR: THE RISE AND FALL OF SEXUAL LIBERALISM, 1920-1980
1. Bernarr Macfadden, “Mad Pleasure,” in True Romances (1924)
2. Bessie Smith, “Kitchen Man” (1929)
3. United States Motion Picture Production Code (1930)
4. World War II War Department Pamphlet on Venereal Disease (1940)
5. St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (1945)
6. Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts (1950)
7. Letters to Alfred Kinsey (1953)
8. Letter to the Society for Humane Abortion (1966)
9. Mattachine Society—Stonewall Rebellion (1969)
10. Toni Cade, “The Pill: Genocide or Liberation?” (1969)
11. Anne Koedt, “Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” (1970)
12. Barbara Mehrhof and Pamela Kearon, “Rape: An Act of Terror” (1971)
13. Transvestite and Transsexual Liberation (1971)
14. Beverly Padilla, “Chicanas and Abortion” (1972)
15. Alex Comfort, Joy of Sex (1972)
PART FIVE: THE CONTEMPORARY ERA: CONTINUITY, CHANGE, AND CONFLICT
1. Melvin Boozer, Address to Democratic National Convention (1980)
2. Larry Kramer, “I Cant Believe You Want to Die” (1987)
3. Laura Alexander, “A Change of Heart” (1987)
4. Pornography and Civil Rights (1988)
5. Carla Trujillo, “Chicana Lesbians: Fear and Loathing in the Chicano Community” (1991)
6. “African American Women in Defense of Ourselves” (1991)
7. “Date Rape” Rape Zine (1990s)
8. Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) (1996)
9. Starr Report (1998)
10. Suggested Audio: Lil Kim, “How Many Licks?” (2000)
11. Susan Fitzmaurice, “Adventures in Child-Rearing: The Sexual Life of a Child Growing up with Down Syndrome" (2002)
12. Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
13. “Congressional Report on Abstinence Only Education” (2004)
14. Federal Marriage Amendment (2006)
15. Sexual Offenders Team Checks Sex Offenders Homes (2007)
Sources for Documents
Selected Bibliography
Permission Acknowledgments
Index