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Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 (Published by the Omohundro Institute … and the University of North Carolina Press)

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Placing sexual culture on the center of power relations in Revolutionary-era Philadelphia, Clare A. Lyons uncovers a world where runaway wives challenged their husbands’ patriarchal rights and where serial and casual sexual relationships were commonplace. By reading popular representations of sex against actual behavior, Lyons reveals the clash of meanings given to sex and illuminates struggles to recast sexuality with the intention to get rid of its subversive potential.

Sexuality became the vehicle for exploring currents of liberty, freedom, and individualism Within the politics of on a regular basis life among groups of early Americans in most cases excluded from formal systems of governance–women, African Americans, and poor classes of whites. Lyons shows that women and men created a vibrant urban pleasure culture, including the eroticization of print culture, as eighteenth-century readers became interested by stories of bastardy, prostitution, seduction, and adultery. Within the post-Revolutionary reaction, white middle-class men asserted their authority, Lyons argues, by creating a gender system that concurrently allowed them the liberty of their passions, constrained middle-class women with virtue, and projected licentiousness onto lower-class whites and African Americans.

Lyons’s analysis shows how class and racial divisions fostered new constructions of sexuality that served as a foundation for gender. This gendering of sexuality Within the new nation was once integral to reconstituting social hierarchies and subordinating women and African Americans Within the wake of the Revolution.

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