"The second edition of American Sexual Histories features an updated collection of sixteen articles by prominent historians and their corresponding primary sources that investigate issues related to human sexuality in America from the colonial era to the present day.... "-- Provided by publisher.

Bodies in doubt : intersex in early America / Elizabeth Reis -- Transgressive male sex in early America / Thomas A. Foster -- Indian women, French women, and the regulation of sex / Jennifer M. Spear -- Rape and sexual power in early America / Sharon Block -- The overflowing of friendship / Richard Godbeer -- Sex among the rabble / Clare A. Lyons -- White women, Black men, and adultery in the antebellum South / Martha Hodes -- Obscenity, sex education, and medical democracy in the antebellum United States / April Haynes -- Miscegenation law and the making of race in America / Peggy Pascoe -- Hysteria : the revolt of the "good girl" / Elizabeth Lunbeck -- When abortion was illegal / Leslie J. Reagan -- Contraceptive consumers / Andrea Tone -- Lesbian pulp novels and US lesbian identity / Yvonne Keller -- Sex change and the popular press / Joanne Meyerowitz -- The population bomb and the sexual revolution / Rickie Solinger -- Marketing safe sex / Jennifer Brier.