Sexual Revolution in Early America
by: Godbeer, Richard

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 430 pages. This book uncovers a persistent struggle between moral authority and the widespread expression of popular customs and individual urges. It details a fundamental shift in sexual culture and the acceptance of a more individualistic concept of sexual desire and fulfillment. Sex, marriage, was it "sinful". What was the influence of the Puritans? What was the power of the Planters of the South had over their Slaves? 75 pages of notes and an Index. This is both very interesting and scholarly. Clean copy.