Sexual History
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EliteBAMF on February 24, 2011
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american history of gender and sexuality
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 sex | Biological determination of someone bases on physiology and anatomy |
| gender | Social and Cultural depiction of different sexes as masculine or feminine |
| sexuality | context is defined by people's feelings concerning their masculine feminine natures, their abilities to give and receive love and affection, and finally their roles in reproduction of the species |
| Pueblo women | Native American women from the southwest who lived in a matrilineal and matrilocal community. Women built the houses and worked crops and thus has substantial power within the society |
| Berdache | Among certain Native American peoples, a person, usually a male, who assumes the gender identity and is granted the social status of the opposite sex. Did women's work and had sex with masculine men |
| maleness of jamestown | Issue with Jamestown in that it was almost exclusively male at the outset. Little to no population growth, poor crop variety, and lack of families all created instability. Wives for Virginia Plan took domestic and classy but poor off women and auctioned them off to colonists |
| bundling | a one-time custom during courtship of unmarried couples occupying the same bed without undressing. They would often be bundled up in sacks |
| patriarchy | a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe. |
| bestiality | Fornication with animals. During the times of the American colonies accusations of bestiality were akin to the Salem Witch hunt |
| communal manhood | Anthony Rotundo's term for the norm of manhood in the 17th and 18th century colonial America, in which the focus of gender expectations for adolescent boys was on preparing to assume adult male role responsibilities in work and marriage. |
| self-made manhood | Anthony Rotundo's term for the norm of manhood in the 19th century America, in which males were increasingly expected to become independent from their families in adolescence and emerging adulthood as part of becoming a man. |
| passionlessness | - passionlessness is the idea that women aren't sexually aggressive or have strong sexual feelings. This means that they aren't driven by sexual impulses. - argues that this idea helped women by shifting view from sexual to moral and intelligent - allowed women to have unprecedented moral authority. - this occurred bc more women because involved in church so ministers changed their tone. |
| Sara Baartman | 1810 taken to france. member of the hottentot tribe, taken from her home to be put on display in london and france |
| Jezebel | wife of Ahab; responsible for turning him the worship of god; woman who turns someone from good to evil; another term for a "controlling wife" |
| The Trickster | Form of masculinity perpetuated by slaves in the United States. Focuses on subversion in order to rebel against masters |
| Helen Jewett | ... |
| Cult of Domesticity | 19th century. the belief that as the fairer sex, women occupied a unique and specific social position and that they were to provide religious and moral instruction in the home but avoid the rough world of politics and business in the larger sphere of society. |
| bachelorhood | ... |
| sporting culture | Male culture of the early 1800s that involved gambling, drinking, and sports as an aside to a strenuous work life |
| utopian communities | They were the most numerous during mid-19th century; the idea was to withdraw from society in hopes of creating a "perfect" community (e.g. Brook Farm, the early Mormons); reflected the diversity and ideas of reform of that time period. |
| John Humphrey Noyes | (1811-1886) praised the Shakers as the true "pioneers of modern Socialism" & was inspired by their marriageless society to create a community which defined sexuality & gender roles in radically new ways; after being dismissed from his church, he turned to perfectionism (an evangelical movement that began in the 1830's which believed that the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred & that people could therefore aspire to sinless perfection in their earthly lives); he believed that the major barrier to achieving this ideal state was marriage; he & his followers embraced complex marriage (all members of community married to one another) partly because he wished to free women from being regarded as property of their husbands; in the late 1830's, Noyes established a community in Vermont which then moved to Oneida, NY where 200 people lived by the 1850's; Oneida became financially successful when the inventor of a highly successful steel animal trap joined & the community diversified into the production of silverware from there; After Noyes fled to Canada in 1879, the community died down |
| complex marriage | John Humphrey Noyes led Oneida community on belief that Postmenopausal women should introduce teenage males to sex, so that they rarely resulted in pregnancies; Likewise, older men introduced young women to sex. In general, though, all members of the community were married |
| John Harvey Kellogg | American Physician who promoted the health food and healthy eating movement. Supported the idea of finite energy and the body as a closed system. Ejaculation should be limited so as to reduce energy reduction |
| neurasthenia | A psychological disorder or nervous debility characterized by chronic fatigue and weakness, loss of memory, and generalized aches and pains, formerly thought to result from exhaustion of the nervous system through strenuous mental work. Usually effected men in feminine jobs |
| hysteria | Neurotic disorder blamed on the weakness of the female psyche. Popularly cured by orgasms |
| Anthony Comstock | A former United States Postal Inspector and politician dedicated to ideas of Victorian morality. In 1873 Comstock created the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, an institution dedicated to supervising the morality of the public. Later that year, Comstock successfully influenced the United States Congress to pass the Comstock Law, which made illegal the delivery or transportation of both "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" material as well as any methods of, or information pertaining to, birth control. |
| passionate manhood | Anthony Rotundo's term for the norm of manhood in the 20th century America, in which self-expression and self-enjoyment replaced self-control and self-denial as the paramount virtues young males should learn in the course of becoming a man. |
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