| Description |
356 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Margot Canaday, Nancy F. Cott, and Robert O. Self -- 1. Reconstructing belonging : the Thirteenth Amendment at work in the world / Stephanie McCurry -- 2. The Comstock apparatus / Jeffrey Escoffier, Whitney Strub, and Jeffrey Patrick Colgan -- 3. Morals, sex, crime, and the legal origins of modern American social police / William J. Novak -- 4. The commerce (clause) in sex in the life of Lucille de Saint-André / Grace Peña Delgado -- 5. "Facts which might be embarrassing" : illegitimacy, vital registration, and state knowledge / Susan J. Pearson -- 6. Race, the construction of dangerous sexualities, and juvenile justice / Tera Eva Agyepong -- 7. Eugenic sterilization as a welfare policy / Molly Ladd-Taylor -- 8. "Land of the white hunter" : legal liberalism and the shifting racial ground of morals enforcement / Anne Gray Fischer -- 9. Sex panic, psychiatry, and the expansion of the carceral state / Regina Kunzel -- 10. The fall of Walter Jenkins and the hidden history of the lavender scare / Timothy Stewart-Winter -- 11. The state of illegitimacy after the rights revolution / Serena Mayeri -- 12. What happened to the functional family? Defining and defending alternative households before and beyond same-sex marriage / Stephen Vider -- 13. Abortion and the state after Roe / Johanna Schoen -- 14. The work that sex does / Paisley Currah -- Afterword : Frugal governance, family values, and the intimate roots of neoliberalism / Brent Cebul -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Summary |
"These highly readable essays unite recent scholarship on the meaning and use of state power with investigations of the history of intimate experience-marriage, sexuality, reproduction, family life-exploring the porous boundaries between public and private realms. In analyzing the relationship between state power and intimate experience in the United States from the Civil War to today, this volume makes the case that "intimate governance"--The binding of our private daily experience to the apparatus of the state-should be central to our understanding of modern American history. For the state is always with us, even in our most private, seemingly independent actions"-- Provided by publisher |
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Marriage -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Sex -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Reproduction -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Families -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Sex and law -- United States.
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Sex and law |
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Families -- Political aspects |
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Sex -- Political aspects |
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United States |
| Added Author |
Canaday, Margot, editor.
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Cott, Nancy F., editor.
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Self, Robert O., 1968- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Ebook version : 9780226794891 |
| ISBN |
9780226794617 (hardcover) |
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022679461X (hardcover) |
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9780226794754 (paperback) |
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022679475X (paperback) |
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9780226794891 (electronic book) |
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022679489X (electronic book) |
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