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Sex and the Civil War : Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality /

Civil War soldiers enjoyed unprecedented access to obscene materials of all sorts, including mass-produced erotic fiction, cartes de visite, playing cards and stereographs. A perfect storm of antebellum legal, technological and commercial developments, coupled with the concentration of men fed into...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giesberg, Judith Ann, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Lewd, wicked, scandalous: American pornography comes of age
  • Storming the enemy's breastworks: Civil War courts-martial and the sexual culture of the U.S. Army camp
  • True courage: Anthony Comstock and the crisis of the war
  • Outraged manhood of our age: the postwar antipornography campaign.