Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Perceptions and Realities 1
5. PART I: European/Native American Contact, 1492-1710
6. 1 Sexual Violation in the Conquest of the Americas 7
7. 2 Native American Sexuality in the Eyes of the Beholders 1535-1710 35
8. 3 Her Master's Voice: Gender, Speech, and Gendered Speech in the Narrative of the Captivity of Mary White Rowlandson 55
9. PART II: Regulating Sex and Sexuality in Colonial New England
10. 4 The Regulation of Sex in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts: The Quarterly Court of Essex County vs. Priscilla Willson and Mr. Samuel Appleton 87
11. 5 Sarah Prentice and the Immortalists: Sexuality, Piety, and the Body in Eighteenth-Century New England 116
12. PART III: Race, Sex, and Social Control in the Chesapeake and Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century
13. 6 William Byrd's "Flourish": The Sexual Cosmos of a Southern Planter 133
14. 7 The Sexual Life of an Eighteenth-Century Jamaican Slave Overseer 163
15. 8 Sex, Sexuality, and Social Control in the Eighteenth- Century Leeward Islands 190
16. PART IV: Images of Masculinity, Femininity, and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century
17. 9 Soldiers in Love: Patrolling the Gendered Frontiers of the Early Republic 215
18. 10 "Imperfect Disclosures": Cross-Dressing and Containment in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond 240
19. 11 "Insidious Murderers of Female Innocence": Representations of Masculinity in the Seduction Tales of the Late Eighteenth Century 262
20. 12 "The Fruit of Unlawful Embraces": Sexual Transgression and Madness in Early American Sentimental Fiction 283
21. Selected Bibliography 315
22. Contributors 333
23. Index 337