Books written by Estelle B. Freedman

Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America, Third Edition

Almost half of Muncie's male high school students, and a third of its female students, had participated in the recent vogue of the “petting" party; girls who did not were decidedly less popular. After graduation, boys and girls alike ...
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America

167-72 ; John S. Haller , Jr. , and Robin M. Haller , The Physician and Sexuality in Victorian America ( Urbana , Ill . , 1974 ) , p . 117 . 19. La Sorte , " Practices , " pp . 167-69 ; Harper , " Be Fruitful , " p . 250.
Redefining Rape

Some of these vigilantes punished accused thieves; some retaliated against black men who cooperated with white lynch mobs. Most, however, reacted to murder, rape, incest, or assault, as did a black mob in Arkansas in 1892 when it seized ...
No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women

Jim Crow policies of segregation spread through the southern states, enforced by the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan (KKK), which terrorized blacks through vigilante violence and murder by lynch mobs. Northern support for reform ...
Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics: Essays

Mary Wollstonecraft , A Vindication of the Rights of Women , excerpted in Women , the Family , and Freedom : The Debate in Documents , vol . 1 , 1750 – 1880 , edited by Susan Groag Bell and Karen M. Offen ( Stanford , Calif .
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America

Preface to the Second EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The Repoductive Matrix, 1600-18001. Cultural Diversity in the Era of Settlement2. Family Life and the Refulation of Deviance3. Seeds of ChangePart II: Divided Passions,...
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America, Third Edition

Texas ruling, this expanded new edition of Intimate Matters details the changes in sexuality and the ongoing growth of individual freedoms in the United States through meticulous research and lucid prose.
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America

Traces changing American attitudes towards human sexuality, discusses social issues involving race, gender, class, and sexual preference, and looks at crusaders for sexual change
Redefining Rape

Redefining Rape tells the story of the forces that have shaped the meaning of sexual violence in the United States, through the experiences of accusers, assailants, and advocates for change.
Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics: Essays by Estelle B. Freedman

This collection brings together eleven essays--eight previously published and three new--that document the evolving relationship between academic feminism and political feminism as Freedman has studied and lived it.
Their Sisters' Keepers: Women's Prison Reform in America, 1830-1930

This study of prison reform adds a new chapter to the history of women's struggle for justice in America