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03981aam a2200433 i 4500 001 E4FD9232214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230713010558 008 200217t20202018mdua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1421438844 020 $a 9781421438849 035 $a (OCoLC)1140729835 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d IOH $d JHE $d OCLCF $d NLE $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a HQ18.U5 $b L34 2020 082 04 $a 306.70973 $2 23 100 1 $a LaFleur, Greta, $d 1981- $e author. 245 14 $a The natural history of sexuality in early America / $c Greta LaFleur. 250 $a Johns Hopkins paperback edition. 264 1 $a Baltimore, Maryland : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xii, 286 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-278) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : toward an environmental theory of early sexuality -- The natural history of sexuality -- The complexion of sodomy -- "Egyptian lusts" at the gallows -- Botanical sexuality and the colonial landscape -- "Negro hill" and the sexuality of space -- Epilogue : thinking sex--without the subject. 520 $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."--Back cover 650 0 $a Sex $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Sex customs $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Sexual ethics $z United States $x History. 650 6 $a SexualiteÌ $z EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire. 650 6 $a Vie sexuelle $z EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire. 650 6 $a Morale sexuelle $z EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire. 650 7 $a Sex. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01114160 650 7 $a Sex customs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01114306 650 7 $a Sexual ethics. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01114835 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718100158.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E4FD9232214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IOHInitiate Another SILO Locator Search