“Ruined” Girls: Changing Community Responses to Illegitimacy in Upstate New York, 1890–1920

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Contents v
3. Series Preface ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Sexuality and Sexual Behavior
6. Premarital Pregnancy in America 1640–1971: An Overview and Interpretation 3
7. Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790–1850 37
8. The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America 55
9. What Ought to Be and What Was: Women’s Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century 84
10. Private Lives and Public Order: A Critical View of the History of Intimate Relations in the U.S. 108
11. Women’s Life in Utopia: The Shaker Experiment in Sexual Equality Reappraised – 1810 to 1860 135
12. Sex and Self-Control: Middle-Class Courtship in America, 1770–1870 151
13. Seeking Ecstasy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure in Nineteenth-Century Feminist Sexual Thought 168
14. “Living the Principle” of Plural Marriage: Mormon Women, Utopia, and Female Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century 187
15. Fallen Women: The Inmates of the Magdalen Society Asylum of Philadelphia, 1836–1908 201
16. “Ruined” Girls: Changing Community Responses to Illegitimacy in Upstate New York, 1890–1920 219
17. The Awesome Power of Sex: The Polemical Campaign against Mormon Polygamy 245
18. Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America: Behavior, Ideology, and Politics 267
19. Smashing: Women’s Relationships before the Fall 286
20. The Morbidification of Love between Women by 19th-century Sexologists 306
21. From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: Medicine and the Changing Conceptualization of Female Deviance 324
22. “Imagine My Surprise”: Women’s Relationships in Historical Perspective 357
23. The American Woman’s Pre-World War I Freedom in Manners and Morals 381
24. Lesbian Magazine Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century 400
25. The Crime of Precocious Sexuality: Female Juvenile Delinquency in the Progressive Era 418
26. Nineteenth-Century Sexuality and the “Sexual Revolution” of the Progressive Era 448
27. “A New Generation of Women”: Progressive Psychiatrists and the Hypersexual Female 464
28. Companionate Marriage and the Lesbian Threat 496
29. Lesbianism in the 1920s and 1930s: A Newfound Study 511
30. Oral History and the Study of Sexuality in the Lesbian Community: Buffalo, NY, 1940–1960 521
31. Copyright Information 541
32. Index 545