Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Things Fearful to Name -- "Things Fearful to Name": Bestiality in Early America / John Murrin -- Document A: Of Plymouth Plantation: the Pilgrims in America / William Bradford -- Document B: Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, from 1638 to 1649 / Charles J. Hoadly -- 2. Eroticizing the Middle Ground -- Eroticizing the Middle Ground: Anglo-Indian Relations along the Eighteenth-century Frontier / Richard Godbeer -- Document A: John Rolfe to Sir Thomas Dale, April 1614 -- Document B: A New Voyage to Carolina / John Lawson -- Document C: Quebec to Carolina in 1785-1786 / Robert Hunter, Jr. -- 3. Girling of It -- "Girling of It" in Eighteenth-century New Hampshire / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Lois K. Stabler -- Document A: Bundling: Its Origins, Progress, and Decline in America / Henry Reed Stiles -- Document B: The Ladies Library -- Document C: Female Policy Detected, or the Arts of a Designing Woman Laid Open / Edward Ward -- 4. The Psychology of Free Love -- The Psychology of Free Love: Sexuality in the Oneida Community / Lawrence Foster -- Document A: History of American Socialisms / John Humphrey Noyes -- Document B: Male Continence / John Humphrey Noyes -- 5. Ministerial Misdeeds -- Ministerial Misdeeds: the Onderdonk Trial and Sexual Harassment in the 1840s / Patricia Cline Cohen -- Document A: Trial of the Right Rev. Benjamin T. Onderdonk, D.D., Bishop of New York -- Document B: De Darkie's Comic Al-Me-Nig -- 6. White Women, Black Men, and Adultery in the Antebellum South -- Adultery: Dorothea Bourne and Edmond / Martha Hodes -- Document A: Lewis Bourne Divorce Petition -- 7. Hysteria -- Hysteria: the Revolt of the "Good Girl" / Elizabeth Lunbeck -- Document A: The Case of Miss A / L.E. Emerson -- 8. Christian Brotherhood or Sexual Perversion? -- Christian Brotherhood or Sexual Perversion? Homosexual Identities and the Construction of Sexual Boundaries in the World War I Era / George Chauncey, Jr. -- Document A: Alleged Immoral Conditions and Practices at the Naval Training Station, Newport, Rhode Island -- Document B: The Intersexes: a History of Semilisexualism / Edward Irenaeus Prime Stevenson -- Document C: Sexual Perversion, Satyriasis, and Nymphomania / G. Frank Lydston -- 9. About to Meet her Maker -- "About to Meet Her Maker": Women, Doctors, Dying Declarations, and the State's Investigation of Abortion, Chicago, 1867-1940 / Leslie J. Reagan -- Document A: A Maryland Abortionist Gets No Pardon -- Document B: Dying Declarations Obtained in Abortion Case as Condition to Rendering Aid -- Document C: Comments of "Esther E." -- 10. Contraceptive Consumers -- Contraceptive Consumers: Gender and the Political Economy of Birth Control in the 1930s / Andrea Tone -- Document A: Advertisements for Lysol -- Document B: Facts and Frauds in Women's Hygiene / Rachel Lynn Palmer and Sarah K. Greenberg -- Document C: What Do the American Women Think about Birth Control? / Henry F. Pringle -- Document D: The Accident of Birth -- 11. Mixing Bodies and Cultures -- Mixing Bodies and Cultures: the Meaning of America's Fascination with Sex between "Orientals" and "Whites" / Henry Yu -- Document A: A Stanford Girl Weds a Chinese -- Document B: My Oriental Husbands / Emma Fong Kuno -- Document C: Why Japanese and Americans Should Not Intermarry -- Document D: Intermarriage: Standpoint and Tentative Questionnaire -- Confidential -- 12. The Sexualized Woman -- The Sexualized Woman: the Lesbian, the Prostitute, and the Containment of Female Sexuality in Postwar America / Donna Penn -- Document A: Variations in Sexual Behavior: a Psychodynamic Study of Deviations in Various Expressions of Sexual Behavior / Frank Caprio -- Document B: I Am a Homosexual Woman / Jane McKinnon -- Document C: The Detective / James Mills -- Document D: Beebo Brinker / Ann Bannon -- 13. The Population Bomb and the Sexual Revolution -- The Population Bomb and the Sexual Revolution: Toward Choice / Rickie Solinger -- Document A: The Slavery of Sex Freedom: America's Moral Crisis / Howard Whitman -- Document B: Are We Still Stereotyping the Unmarried Mother? / Rose Bernstein -- Document C: Population Crisis: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Foreign Aid Expenditures of the Committee on Government Operations -- 14. Sex Change and the Popular Press -- Sex Change and the Popular Press: Historical Notes on Transsexuality in the United States, 1930-1955 / Joanne Meyerowitz -- Document A: Girl Changes into Man -- Document B: Psychopathia Transexualis / D.O. Cauldwell -- Document C: New Sex Switches: Behind the Sensational Headlines Loom Unpleasant Medical Facts -- Document D: I Want to Become a Woman.

Gift of Charles Rosenberg.