ABSTRACT
From witch trials to pickaxe murderers, from brothels to convents, and from slavery to Toni Morrison's Paradise, these essays provide fascinating and provocative insights into our sexual and religious conventions and beliefs.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|15 pages
A Sodom Within
Historicizing Puritan Homoerotics in the Diary of Michael Wigglesworth
chapter 3|16 pages
“Remember Me”
The Wonders of an Invisible World—Sex, Patriarchy, and Paranoia in Early America
chapter 4|21 pages
Uncleanliness Is Next to Godliness
Sexuality, Salvation, and the Early American Woman's Execution Narrative
chapter 7|18 pages
Now You Shall See How a Slave Was Made a Man
Gendering Frederick Douglass's Struggles with Christianity
chapter 9|22 pages
The Other Woman's Sphere
Nuns, Prostitutes, and the Medicalization of Middle-Class Domesticity
chapter 10|22 pages
Chiristian Maidens and Heathen Monks
Oratorical Seduction at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions
chapter 11|22 pages
Americanization of a “Queer Fellow”
Performing Jewishness and Sexuality in Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky, with a Footnote on the (Monica) Lewinsky'ed Nation
