Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (971 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226142647 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 466 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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This book will make you a well informed person Adenil Many of the other reviewers are marking this book down for being "textbook-like," all the while forgetting it is a history book. It does precisely what it purports to do: regale us with the fascinating sexual history of the United States in great detail. It does not claim to be the next pop-hit or a coffee table book. This is a book for people who want to learn something, and that makes it wonderful.Beginning just before the foundation of the colonies, this book walks us step-by-step through the history of sexuality in America. D'Emilio and Freedman provide direct primary quotes from the individuals who were experiencing t. Amazon Customer said Entertaining and Informative. Intimate Matters provides a comprehensive analysis of the history of sexuality in America through an engaging and thoughtful narrative. It is useful for the professional historian--it is well documented with references to existing historical literature on the topic (although it is not original research). However, it also will prove very interesting to the casual reader.The book itself provides a broad descriptive introduction to the history of sexuality and reproduction from the colonial era to the present, but also presents a clear argument that is easy to follow. The authors claim that sexuality in America has gone throu. Important social history of evolving attitudes towards sex pythag3 D'Emilio and Freedman have provided their readers with a thoughtful, entertaining, and concise history of American sexuality. As their title suggests, their perspective is historical rather than psychological. Like most social histories, "Intimate Matters" adopts a bottom-up approach, choosing to emphasize how groups of people experience (and have experienced) sexuality within their own economic, racial, gendered, and cultural contexts, rather than on the decisions of elite policymakers.There is plenty of interesting information here, ranging from the sexual practices of the early colonists to grassroots campaigns to censo
D'Emilio and Freedman marshall their material to chart a gradual but decisive shift in the way Americans have understood sex and its meaning in their lives." --Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times Book Review"With comprehensiveness and care D'Emilio and Freedman have surveyed the sexual patters for an entire nation across four centuries." --Martin Bauml Duberman, Nation"Intimate Matters is comprehensive, meticulous and intelligent." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World"This book is remarkable. The decision was widely hailed as a victory for gay rights--and it derived in part, according to Kennedy's written comments, from the information he gleaned from D'Emilio's book, which traces the history of American perspectives on sexual relationships from the nation's founding through the present day. Freedman, Intimate Matters, was cited by Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy when, writing for a ma