Sex and the Civil War : soldiers, pornography, and the making of American morality
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Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017].
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xiii, 135 pages ; 22 cm.
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Shelby Co PL - Shelbyville Main Library - Adult Nonfiction | 306.7 GIE | On Shelf |
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Obscenity (Law) -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Pornography -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Pornography -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Pornography -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Sexual ethics -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Social norms -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
Pornography -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Pornography -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Pornography -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Sexual ethics -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Social norms -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
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Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017].
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Book
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English
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-produced erotic fiction, cartes de visite, playing cards, and stereographs. A perfect storm of antebellum legal, technological, and commercial developments, coupled with the concentration of men fed into armies, created a demand for, and a deluge of, pornography in the military camps. Illicit materials entered in haversacks, through the mail, or from sutlers; soldiers found pornography discarded on the ground, and civilians discovered it in abandoned camps. Though few examples survived the war, these materials raised sharp concerns among reformers and lawmakers, who launched campaigns to combat it. By the war's end, a victorious, resurgent American nation-state sought to assert its moral authority by redefining human relations of the most intimate sort, including the regulation of sex and reproduction-most evident in the Comstock laws, a federal law and a series of state measures outlawing pornography, contraception, and abortion. With this book, Judith Giesberg has written the first serious study of the erotica and pornography that nineteenth-century American soldiers read and shared and links them to the postwar reaction to pornography and to debates about the future of sex and marriage.,--Amazon.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Giesberg, J. A. (2017). Sex and the Civil War: soldiers, pornography, and the making of American morality . The University of North Carolina Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Giesberg, Judith Ann, 1966-. 2017. Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality. The University of North Carolina Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Giesberg, Judith Ann, 1966-. Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Giesberg, Judith Ann. Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
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