1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911108907303321

Autore

Godbeer Richard

Titolo

Sexual revolution in early America / / Richard Godbeer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Md., : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002

ISBN

9780801875676

0-8018-7567-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (448 p.)

Collana

Gender relations in the American experience

Disciplina

306.7/0973

Soggetti

Sex customs - United States - History

Sex role - United States - History

Sex customs - North America - History

United States Social life and customs To 1775

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I - Passionate Pilgrims; Chapter 1 -  ''Chambering and Wantonising''; Chapter 2 - ''A Complete Body of Divinity''; Chapter 3 - ''Pregnant with the Seeds of All Sin''; Part II - Sex and Civility; Chapter 4 - ''Living in a State of Nature''; Chapter 5 - The Dangerous Allure of ''Copper-Coloured Beauties''; Chapter 6 - ''The Cameleon Lover''; Part III - The Sexual Revolution; Chapter 7 - ''Under the Watch''; 'Chapter 8 - 'A Hint to Young Ladies''; Chapter 9 - ''Martyrdom to Venus''; Afterword; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Colonial history will never quite be the same... The most thorough compendium of sexual incidents, attitudes, laws, and literature in British America before 1800... This work will be the central reference point for our understanding of sexuality in early America for many years to come." -- Washington Times.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911092647703321

Autore

Knowles Caroline <1954->

Titolo

Bedlam on the streets / / Caroline Knowles  ; with photographs by Ludovic Dabert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-134-57053-8

1-134-57054-6

1-280-26766-6

9786610267668

0-203-99593-7

9780203995938

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

362.20420971428

Soggetti

Mentally ill - Care - Quebec (Province) - Montreal

Mentally ill - Quebec (Province) - Montreal - Social conditions

Community mental health services - Quebec (Province) - Montreal

Mentally ill - Deinstitutionalization - Quebec (Province) - Montreal

Mentally ill - Services for - Quebec (Province) - Montreal

Montréal (Québec) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; LIST OF PLATES; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1 VOICE, IMAGE AND TEXT; 2 MADNESS AND THE GRAMMAR OF URBAN SPACE; 3 INTERIOR SPACE, AESTHETICS AND SUBJECTIVITIES; 4 LIVING IN TRANSIT; 5 'SCHIZOPHRENIC' LIVES; 6 DANGEROUSNESS AND ENDANGERMENT; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

What happens when the mad are let out of the asylum and there is nowhere for them to go?This hard-hitting and controversial new book traces the terms on which the mad occupy the city's streets, homeless shelters, shopping centres and fast food outlets. This social geography of madness is situated within the broader parameters of systems of social welfare and globalization, arguing that the 'community mental



health care' system is actually a system of neglect.Bedlam on the Streets is a richly textured ethnography combining stark photographic images of people and places