000925283 000__ 04356cam\a2200457Ki\4500 000925283 001__ 925283 000925283 005__ 20210515191102.0 000925283 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000925283 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 000925283 008__ 200312s2018\\\\mdua\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000925283 019__ $$a1078533204$$a1142722280 000925283 020__ $$a9781421426440$$q(electronic book) 000925283 020__ $$a1421426447$$q(electronic book) 000925283 020__ $$z9781421426433 000925283 020__ $$z1421426439 000925283 035__ $$a(OCoLC)on1056624876 000925283 035__ $$a925283 000925283 040__ $$aN$T$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cN$T$$dYDX$$dEBLCP$$dMERUC$$dP@U$$dUAB$$dCNO$$dOCLCQ$$dK6U 000925283 043__ $$an-us--- 000925283 049__ $$aISEA 000925283 050_4 $$aHQ18.U5$$bL34 2018eb 000925283 08204 $$a306.70973$$223 000925283 1001_ $$aLaFleur, Greta,$$d1981-$$eauthor. 000925283 24514 $$aThe natural history of sexuality in early America /$$cGreta LaFleur. 000925283 264_1 $$aBaltimore :$$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$$c[2018] 000925283 300__ $$a1 online resource (xii, 286 pages) :$$billustrations 000925283 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 000925283 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 000925283 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 000925283 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000925283 5050_ $$aIntroduction: toward an environmental theory of early sexuality -- The natural history of sexuality -- The complexion of sodomy -- "Egyptian lusts" and other bad habits : narrating sexual deviance and executing racial difference -- "Columbia's soil" : botanical sexuality and the colonial landscape in Herman Mann's The female review -- Vice, race, and the sexuality of space : the early nineteenth century in Boston's "Negro hill" -- Epilogue: thinking sex-without the subject -- Notes -- Works cited. 000925283 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000925283 5208_ $$a"If sexology--the science of sex--came into being sometime in the nineteenth century, then how did statesmen, scientists, and everyday people make meaning out of sex before that point? In The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America, Greta LaFleur demonstrates that eighteenth-century natural history--the study of organic life in its environment--actually provided the intellectual foundations for the later development of the scientific study of sex. Natural historians understood the human body to be a "porous envelope," eminently vulnerable to its environment. Yet historians of sexuality have tended to rely on archival evidence of genital-based or otherwise bodily sex acts for its source material. Through careful readings of both elite natural history texts alongside popular print forms that circulated widely in the British North American colonies during the long eighteenth century--among them Barbary captivity, execution, cross-dressing, and anti-vice narratives--LaFleur traces the development of a broad knowledge of sexuality defined in terms of the dynamic relationship between the human and its natural, social, physical, and climatic milieu. At the heart of this book is the question of how to produce a history of sexuality for an era in which modern vocabularies for sex and desire were unavailable. LaFleur demonstrates how environmental logic was used to explain sexual behavior on a broad scale, not just among the educated elite who wrote and read natural historical texts. Reading popular print alongside contemporary natural historical writing, LaFleur reunites the history of sexuality with the history of race, demonstrating how they were bound to one another by the emergence of the human sciences in the eighteenth century. Ultimately, The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America not only rewrites all dominant scholarly narratives of early sexual behavior but also poses a major intervention into queer theoretical understandings of the relationship between sex and the subject."--Jacket. 000925283 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000925283 650_0 $$aSex$$zUnited States$$xHistory. 000925283 650_0 $$aSex customs$$zUnited States$$xHistory. 000925283 650_0 $$aSexual ethics$$zUnited States$$xHistory. 000925283 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aLaFleur, Greta, 1981-$$tNatural history of sexuality in early America.$$dBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2018]$$z9781421426433$$w(DLC) 2018000285$$w(OCoLC)1029779382 000925283 8520_ $$bcoll 000925283 85280 $$bebk$$hEBSCOhost 000925283 85640 $$3eBooks on EBSCOhost$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1779614$$zOnline Access 000925283 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:925283$$pGLOBAL_SET 000925283 980__ $$aEBOOK 000925283 980__ $$aBIB 000925283 982__ $$aEbook 000925283 983__ $$aOnline