Sex and sexuality in early America / edited by Merril D. Smith.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-331) and index.

Sexual violation in the conquest of the Americas / Stephanie Wood -- Native American sexuality in the eyes of the beholders / Gordon Sayre -- Her master's voice : gender, speech, and gendered speech in the narrative of the captivity of Mary White Rowlandson / Steven Neuwirth -- The regulation of sex in seventeenth-century Massachusetts : the quarterly court of Essex County vs. Priscilla Willson and Mr. Samuel Appleton / Else L. Hambleton -- Sarah Prentice and the immortalists : sexuality, piety, and the body in eighteenth-century New England / Erik Seeman -- William Byrd's "flourish" : the sexual cosmos of a southern planter / Richard Godbeer -- The sexual life of an eighteenth-century Jamaican slave overseer / Trevor Burnard -- Sex, sexuality, and social control in the eighteenth-century Leewards Islands / Natalie A. Zacek -- Soldiers in love : patrolling the gendered frontiers of the Early Republic / Wayne Bodle -- "Imperfect disclosures" : cross-dressing and containment in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond / Heather Smyth -- "Insidious murderers of female innocence" : representations of masculinity in the seduction tales of the the late eighteenth century / Rodney Hessinger -- "The fruit of unlawful embraces" : sexual transgression and madness in early American sentimental fiction / Karen A. Weyler.

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