Lyons, Clare A. <br/><br/>
Sex among the rabble  an intimate history of gender & power in the age of revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 / 
Clare A. Lyons. 
 - Chapel Hill :  Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,  (c)2006. 
 - 1 online resource (420 pages) :  illustrations 
 - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>The sexual terrain of colonial and revolutionary Philadelphia --  A springboard to revolution : runaway wives and self-divorce --  The fruits of nonmarital unions : sex in the urban pleasure culture --  The pleasures and powers of reading : eroticization of popular print and discursive interpretations of sex --  Sex in the city in the age of democratic revolutions --  To be "free and independent" : sex among the revolutionary rabble --  Sex and the politics of gender in the age of revolution --  Normalizing sex in the nineteenth century : the assault on nonmarital sexuality --  Through our bodies : prostitution and the cultural reconstruction of nonmarital sexuality --  Through our souls : the benevolent reform of sexual transgressors --  Through our children : bastardy comes under attack. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469601007 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sex--History.--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia<br/>Sex role--History.--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia<br/>Marginality, Social--History.--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ18  / .S493 2006