Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Sexuality and Sexual Behavior -- Premarital Pregnancy in America 1640-1971: An Overview and Interpretation / SMITH, DANIEL SCOTT / HINDUS, MICHAEL S. -- Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790-1850 / COTT, NANCY F. -- The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America / SMITH-ROSENBERG, CARROLL -- What Ought to Be and What Was: Women's Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century / DEGLER, CARL N. -- Private Lives and Public Order: A Critical View of the History of Intimate Relations in the U.S. / GADLIN, HOWARD -- Women's Life in Utopia: The Shaker Experiment in Sexual Equality Reappraised - 1810 to 1860 / CAMPBELL, D'ANN -- Sex and Self-Control: Middle-Class Courtship in America, 1770-1870 / ROTHMAN, ELLEN K. -- Seeking Ecstasy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure in Nineteenth-Century Feminist Sexual Thought / DUBOIS, ELLEN CAROL / GORDON, LINDA -- "Living the Principle" of Plural Marriage: Mormon Women, Utopia, and Female Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century / DUNFEY, JULIE -- Fallen Women: The Inmates of the Magdalen Society Asylum of Philadelphia, 1836-1908 / RUGGLES, STEVEN -- "Ruined" Girls: Changing Community Responses to Illegitimacy in Upstate New York, 1890-1920 / BRUMBERG, JOAN JACOBS -- The Awesome Power of Sex: The Polemical Campaign against Mormon Polygamy / CANNON, CHARLES A. -- Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America: Behavior, Ideology, and Politics / FREEDMAN, ESTELLE ¿. -- Smashing: Women's Relationships before the Fall / SAHLI, NANCY -- The Morbidification of Love between Women by 19th-century Sexologists / FADERMAN, LILLIAN -- From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: Medicine and the Changing Conceptualization of Female Deviance / CHAUNCEY, GEORGE -- "Imagine My Surprise": Women's Relationships in Historical Perspective / RUPP, LEILA J. -- The American Woman's Pre-World War I Freedom in Manners and Morals / McGOVERN, JAMES R. -- Lesbian Magazine Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century / FADERMAN, LILLIAN -- The Crime of Precocious Sexuality: Female Juvenile Delinquency in the Progressive Era / SCHLOSSMAN, STEVEN / WALLACH, STEPHANIE -- Nineteenth-Century Sexuality and the "Sexual Revolution" of the Progressive Era / KUSHNER, HOWARD I. -- "A New Generation of Women": Progressive Psychiatrists and the Hypersexual Female / LUNBECK, ELIZABETH -- Companionate Marriage and the Lesbian Threat / SIMMONS, CHRISTINA -- Lesbianism in the 1920s and 1930s: A Newfound Study / BULLOUGH, VERN / BULLOUGH, BONNIE -- Oral History and the Study of Sexuality in the Lesbian Community: Buffalo, NY, 1940-1960 / DAVIS, MADELINE / KENNEDY, ELIZABETH LAPOVSKY -- Copyright Information -- Index