Intimate Matters: A History Of Sexuality In America, Third Edition

by Estelle B. Freedman (Author), John D'Emilio (Author)

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2012
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As the first full-length study of the history of sexuality in America, Intimate Matters offered trenchant insights into the sexual behavior of Americans from colonial times to the present. Now, twenty-five years after its first publication, this ground-breaking classic is back in a crucial and updated third edition. With new and extended chapters, John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman give us an even deeper understanding of how sexuality has dramatically influenced politics and culture throughout our history and into the present. Hailed by critics for its comprehensive approach and noted by the US Supreme Court in the landmark Lawrence v. Texas ruling, Intimate Matters details the changes in sexuality and the ongoing growth of individual freedoms in the United States through meticulous research and lucid prose.

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As the first full-length study of the history of sexuality in America, Intimate Matters offered trenchant insights into the sexual behavior of Americans from colonial times to the present. Now, twenty-five years after its first publication, this ground-breaking classic is back in a crucial and updated third edition. With new and extended chapters, John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman give us an even deeper understanding of how sexuality has dramatically influenced politics and culture throughout our history and into the present. Hailed by critics for its comprehensive approach and noted by the US Supreme Court in the landmark Lawrence v. Texas ruling, Intimate Matters details the changes in sexuality and the ongoing growth of individual freedoms in the United States through meticulous research and lucid prose.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 528
Edition: 3
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 03 Dec 2012
ISBN 10: 0226923800
ISBN 13: 9780226923802

Media Reviews

Intimate Matters was cited by Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy when, writing for a majority of court... he and his colleagues struck down a Texas law criminalizing sodomy. 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 this book. (Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune) Fascinating.... John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman marshal 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, John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman have surveyed the sexual patterns of an entire nation across four centuries. (Martin Duberman, Nation) This book is remarkable.. Matters is bound to become the definitive survey of American sexual history for years to come. (Roy Porter, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences)

Author Bio

John D'Emilio is professor of history and of gender and women's studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The policy director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, he is the author of The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture. Estelle B. Freedman is the Edgar E. Robinson Professor in US History at Stanford University and the author of No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women.