Regulating Desire: From the Virtuous Maiden to the Purity Princess

by J. Shoshanna Ehrlich

Book Overview

Starting with the mid-nineteenth-century campaign by the American Female Moral Reform Society to criminalize seduction and moving forward to the late twentieth-century conservative effort to codify a national abstinence-only education policy, Regulating Desire explores the legal regulation of young women's sexuality in the United States. The book covers five distinct time periods in which changing social conditions generated considerable public...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438453051
• ISBN13: 9781438453057
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.6"